Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

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A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail ... pigeon and tilt it from side to side or back and forward, its tail automatically reacts and moves ...