Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal frequency, ...

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The fossil of a Jurassic bird unearthed in southeastern China has major implications for the history of avian evolution, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...