Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

The film explores the diverse ways in which various bird species raise their young, highlighting the differences between precocial and altricial birds. It illustrates how Canada geese hatch goslings ...

Altricial birds hatch naked and helpless, but what these meatballs lack in fluff they make up for in sitting beneath their parents. Having no feathers makes it easier for them to steal body heat ...

Young altricial birds need to be fed both in the nest and often also after fledging, and thus it takes several weeks, at times even months, until they are nutritionally independent from their parents.

Altricial birds hatch naked and helpless; their lack of feathers means that their parents can more efficiently transmit body heat directly to the babies' skin. Precocial species, ...

In other words, incubation length variation across species of shorebirds and ducks should be negatively correlated with trait variation within species. In contrast, for altricial birds, which ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...