When you take the sky and the ocean out of the equation, blue is surprisingly rare in nature. Less than one in ten plants have blue flowers, and it isn't common in animals, either. One reason is that ...
Researchers at McGill University have identified bacteria that can indicate whether a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new blue-and-green jay hybrid was discovered in San Antonio, Texas. Changing weather caused the habitats of blue jays and green jays to overlap, leading to the hybrid. This is the first observed ...
When you take the sky and the ocean out of the equation, blue is surprisingly rare in nature. Less than one in ten plants have blue flowers, and it isn't common in animals, either. One reason is that ...