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Bird like hummingbirds consume sugar all day long without getting diabetes or heart disease. Scientists just figured out how.

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Anyone who has seen a hummingbird poking her beak deep into a trumpet creeper blossom, or a honeyeater using its brush-tipped ...

Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

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As snow settles on the ground and temperatures drop, it’s easy to think most animals are doing what plenty of people do—curling up somewhere warm and waiting out the freeze.

Finding a clutch of snake eggs in your yard is unexpected, but here's a look at how to identify them and what to do if you come across them.

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...