My Life Seen Through a Kuksa

It seems the more love you pour into it, the more it comes to resemble its owner.In the birch trees of Northern Europe, a ...
Dark Skies Official on MSN

The little bird with a giant minigun - OH-6MH-6 helicopter

First flown in the early 1960s, the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse quickly proved that size had little to do with combat effectiveness.
American Songwriter

3 Grunge Songs From the 1990s That Use the Wah-Wah Pedal Like Actual Teardrops

In the 1990s, grunge music leaned heavily on the electric guitar. The six-stringed instrument was at the center of the hefty musical movement. Whether artists were using it to play rhythm or lead, ...
CNN

Scientists identify two of the world’s noisiest birds – and they’re as loud as a jackhammer

There are two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird – and scientists are not being quiet about it. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that the bare-throated bellbird ...
AOL

Tiny penguin-like sea birds are dying in droves along the California coast

Penguin-like sea birds known as common murres have been dying in droves along the California coast over the last two months. Without enough energy from food, the birds are not be able to molt. Molting ...
CNN

This rare polyamorous bird of prey’s location has been kept a mystery. Here’s why

The UK’s rarest bird of prey has successfully bred in a secret location for a second consecutive year, with conservationists crediting one polyamorous male with bringing the species back from near ...
The Conversation

More than half of Earth’s migratory bird species are declining – here’s how we can still save them

Every year, billions of migratory birds connect the world’s continents, oceans and ecosystems as they undertake epic journeys between their foraging habitats and their breeding grounds. These birds ...
Stereogum

Deep Sea Diver – “Teardrop” (Massive Attack Cover)

You might think of Massive Attack's glimmering, perfect 1998 song "Teardrop" as the lead single from their classic album Mezzanine or as the theme of the TV show House. I think of "Teardrop" as the ...
Columbus Dispatch

Bird and Byron to face the music on 'America's Got Talent'

Childhood friends Blake Bergere and Nick Lorenz formed the musical duo Bird and Byron in New Albany in 2019. Bird and Byron will compete on "America's Got Talent" on June 23. The show airs at 8 p.m.
National Geographic

Terror birds survived millions of years longer than previously thought

A 25,000-year-old fossilized “drumstick” is writing a new chapter for these flightless birds that terrorized the post-dinosaur world. An artist's illustration of ...
Wall Street Journal

‘A Bird’s IQ’ Review: What the Crow Knows

In 1921, a series of petty crimes swept through Southampton, England. Morning after morning, residents would retrieve the bottles of milk on their stoops only to find that a thief had skimmed off the ...
quantamagazine.org

How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme

When an optometrist shines a bright light into your eyes, a vast, branching tree sprouts in your field of vision. This is the shadow of blood vessels. Though we normally can’t perceive them, these ...