Rare conjoined barn swallows found in Arkansas

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Makeup for the birds: jiffy marker turns winged duds into studs

A little makeup on male birds can have a drastic effect on their sex lives, according to a new study. Paint some black on the chests of male barn swallows and suddenly they're losing weight, having sex, and living the high life.Hmmm...there are number of corollaries to be...

Python Swallows 11 Guard Dogs

For this commentator, the real story lies in the villagers' not killing the snake for the crime of simply being a snake. Like the song sort of says, "My (Shedding) Skin is My Sin"."Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match - a 7.1-metre long...

Australian National University Bungles Admissions: Confused by Surname "Smith"

"The case of mistaken identity was the latest administrative bungle for the ANU medical school's 2007 admissions process in which another department prematurely congratulated 80 applicants and retracted the emails hours later. But Ms Smith, 22, who learns tonight whether she...

A conservationist's dream in Africa

"The marching penguins of Antarctica and homing swallows of Capistrano, Calif., are dwarfed by the thunderous herds of wildebeests and zebras that make their twice-yearly migration across the Serengeti Plain in East Africa."