HAMBURG (Reuters) – About 30,000 ducks have been slaughtered after an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in west Germany, authorities said on Thursday. The disease was confirmed on a farm in the Guetersloh area, the North Rhine Westphalia state agriculture ministry said. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called […]
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An extremely rare ‘mutant’ bird that is half male and half female has been discovered in Colombia. Scientists have revealed that a bird with half its feathers green and the other blue features both male and female characteristics. The mutant honeycreeper was spotted by an amateur birdwatcher last year, who […]
Researchers have developed VR goggles for laboratory mice to simulate a life of freedom – and let them feel what it’s like to be hunted by a bird. No, it’s not 1 April – these compact virtual reality specs really have been custom-built to perfectly fit a mouse. Dubbed Miniature […]
HAMBURG (Reuters) – About 6,700 ducks and geese are to be slaughtered after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in east Germany, authorities said on Thursday. The disease was confirmed on a farm in Schonberg in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the state agriculture […]
What do you do if you meet an alligator on a golf course? I wasn’t sure of the rules when my ball landed within yards of one at the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort, on Tobago’s Atlantic coast. In fact it was a caiman – a scarily close relation […]
After months of wrangling with the authorities, Charlie was eventually given the all-clear to join Adlard and her husband Joe, with the bird delivering an emotional phrase when the family was reunited. Speaking to SWNS after the reunion, Adlard said: “I feel relief and joy … I feel so complete.” […]
CNN — Here’s a look at the life of NBA Hall of Fame forward Larry Bird. Birth date: December 7, 1956 Birth place: West Baden, Indiana Birth name: Larry Joe Bird Father: Joe Bird Mother: Georgia (Kerns) Bird Marriages: Dinah (Mattingly) Bird, (1989-present); Janet Condra (1975-1976, divorced) Children: with Dinah […]
That’s no moon. An astronaut’s tool bag that accidentally floated away during a routine spacewalk at the International Space Station is now orbiting Earth and may be bright enough to spot by keen-eyed skywatchers. The bag drifted away from the space station this month when NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and […]