The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

There are always exceptions, and perhaps you’ve had an especially rewarding bird sighting this fall, but generally, it has ...

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it ...

Dark-eyed juncos, a bird that typically live in mountain forests, have established thriving populations in Southern California cities, where they eat food people leave behind. A UCLA biologist ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

It’s just an “ordinary bird,” yet it can carry itself across a continent with little more than the gentlest of scents. Tiny dark-eyed juncos are common winter visitors around backyard birdfeeders. You ...

Parents need to know that Blue Eyed Girl is an indie dramedy about midlife self-discovery that follows a 40-something woman, Jane (Marisa Coughlan), who comes home after her father gets sick and is ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Despite the best efforts of King Henry I (1068-1135) to line up his legitimate daughter Matilda (1102-1167) for the royal hot seat in the event of his death, Henry’s upstart nephew Stephen of Blois ...