Your tax dollars are being spent by the billions to subsidize wind turbines, which are killing 600,000+ birds every year including eagles, rare owls, and migratory birds.
Is this really environmentally friendly? More from PragerU.
The euthanasia campaign may be necessary to prevent the spread of the Newcastle disease, but bird owners say that it’s being carried out in a cruel manner. More from Reason TV.
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Ever since Chicken Little’s infamous cry, “The sky is falling,” people around the world have experienced their share of weirdness dropping through the clouds. Take the Great Jelly Rain Incident of 2009 in Scotland, when a mysterious gelatinous substance came pouring down. Scientists studying the phenomenon were unable to get a grasp on what the substance was. Some guessed fungus or the remnants of a meteor, but the most plausible theory was that the jelly was frog or toad ovaries regurgitated by birds. Planet Dolan describes nine other mysterious objects that fell from the sky.
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We’ve been taught that dinosaurs went extinct 66 billion years ago when a mega-meteor plummeted into the Yucatan Peninsula. But Dr. Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay to be Smart, takes exception. “Thanks to science, we know that our planet is home to 10,000 or so species of living dinosaurs,” he says. “We call them birds.” In the following video clip, Hanson explains birds’ place on the tree of life.
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Mother Nature has been known to put on a show or two. But some of her productions are truly out of this world.
Take “raining animals,” a meteorological phenomenon recorded by many countries throughout history. The animals most likely “raining” from the sky are fish, frogs and birds, but there have been reported downpours of worms and spiders as well.
Scientists theorize the phenomenon is the work of waterspouts into which animals get sucked up. Following in this edition of Hybrid Librarian are 10 of the strangest natural phenomenon on Earth.
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A new study from the University of Florida in Gainesville has discovered why male chickens and other birds do not have a penis. Around 97 percent of bird species have little or no phallus, even though they reproduce through internal fertilization.
Although chickens have a penis in the embryonic stages of development, it regresses over the course of maturation because of a genetic program that causes cell death at the tip of the growing penis.
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A new theory might explain how penguins lost their ability to fly. The theory says birds can’t have wings good at both flying and swimming, and penguins made the tradeoff.
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Only three percent of birds have penises. Perhaps none are as endowed as one species of duck. Ze Frank provides the low-down.
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As spring approaches, we anticipate the fluttering butterflies and the capering baby lambs, but we can also expect to see some birds hammered out of their minds in the trees, and perhaps rolling on the ground. In most cases, says Hank Green, these birds have overindulged in the fermented berries and other fruits that froze during the winter and are now thawing – proving an irresistible treat for many kinds of birds. H/T The SciShow
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