Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...
Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that ...
Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the ...
Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet. Scientists have discovered that a flightless Hawaiian ibis called ...
Across all seven continents, iconic birds once dominated their habitats before vanishing in ways that still raise hard questions. This video traces one extinct bird from each region, using fossils, ...
Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...
The study found that 63 out of 64 sites across the islands had avian malaria, including areas with diverse bird communities.
In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
A new study led by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researcher shows that avian malaria can be transmitted by nearly all forest bird species in Hawaiʻi, helping explain why the disease is present ...
Joey Baxter receives funding from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), via the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). When we think about birds, we often picture their colourful ...