Computer models suggest that plant-eating dinosaurs called therizinosaurs used their claws for digging, grasping or piercing plants -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The finding from a study of European robins in shielded huts suggests that cities have significant effects on the migration patterns of birds that rely on internal magnetic compasses -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Bite marks on fossils coupled with an analysis of skull strength suggests that crocodilians were capable of using "death rolls" to dismember prey -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
As a teenager, Chet Sherwood, a biological anthropologist at George Washington University, did not know he was destined to become a scientist. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientists knew neochrome was odd before they started rooting around in its family tree. A union of independent proteins — red-sensing phytochrome and blue-sensing phototropin — the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The fork-tailed drongo can mimic the alarm calls of dozens of other species of animals, including nonbirds, to drive them off and steal their food. Cynthia Graber reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com