Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

A newly constructed family tree of the hummingbirds, published today in the journal Current Biology, tells a story of a unique group of birds that originated in Europe, passed through Asia and North ...

In D.C. the president’s Big Beautiful Bill is facing a contentious fight in the Senate. Governor Ferguson recently signed over 400 bills into law. But there was other bill related news in recent weeks ...

Phenotypic characters with a complex physical basis may have a correspondingly complex evolutionary history. Males in the “bee” hummingbird clade court females with sound from tail-feathers, which ...

billy barr tells us the lilies emergence is out of sync with the hummingbirds arrival. billy barr looks through the logs he's been keeping for almost 50 years. He explains how the glacier lilies ...

The Hummingbird appeared in 1960 and is regarded as the first Martin-esque square-shouldered Gibson acoustic guitar (as opposed to the classic round-shouldered Jumbo design). But it wasn’t the first ...

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned for feeding; they also allow males to joust like knights over mates ...

The hummingbird study that Tom Smith and Chris Schneider are conducting in Ecuador is part of a much larger research program spanning three continents. Evolutionary biologists are fanning out and ...

The long, thin bills of hummingbirds are one of their most distinct features. Their bills aren't just for looking pretty-they are tools that developed to have multiple uses over thousands of years. A ...