This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

One reason is that true blue colours or pigments simply don't exist in nature, and plants and animals have to perform tricks to appear blue, according to the University of Adelaide. Take blue jays for ...

Nature-based Solutions for Enhancing Urban Cooling and Beyond: Advances, Co-Benefits and Trade-offsUrban areas are ...

Birds of a feather flock together, the adage goes. But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought. When researchers at the University of ...

WINAMAC, Ind. (WSBT) — A popular river spot in Winamac closed for several days after an unexpected problem plagued the Tippecanoe River. IDEM identified a blue-green algae bloom. The bloom wasn’t only ...

GREEN LAKE (WLUK) -- For the first time, a lake-wide harmful blue green algae bloom has been confirmed in Green Lake. Blue-green algae blooms can produce toxins harmful to people and pets. The Green ...

It wasn't just a unique color variation—it was something far more unusual. The bird, confirmed through genetic testing, was a wild hybrid between a green jay and a blue jay, the first ever documented ...

Biologists are attributing this new hybrid bird to abnormal mating behavior to climate change BrianTravis Maher/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library, Stokes/University of Texas at Austin, Brien ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...