Long Island ducks beat odds; researchers want to figure out why
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Before the shopping malls, before Levittown and Jones Beach, before the traffic jams on the Long Island Expressway, there were the ducks.
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The sensitivity of a homing pigeon&#39;s beak could provide an answer to the complicated story of how it finds its way home. Scientists have shown for the first time that homing
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Scientists are trying to determine why venomous lionfish are appearing in Long IslandÂs waters. The Pacific Ocean natives could pose a threat to the habitat.
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Ducks may have been paddling about in primeval swamps when Tyrannosaurus rex was king of the dinosaurs, scientists report in Nature.
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You couldn't blame Boston College fans for thinking the schedule-maker had made a small oversight as they watched their team struggle to preserve its undefeated record. The schedule said the Eagles were playing Yale, but for much of yesterday's game, they made the Yalies look like another team from the Nutmeg State -- the University of Connecticut -- that is ...
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The Anaheim Ducks have built the NHL's best record on their ability to score late in tight games.
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By GERRY CALLAHAN  There is, of course, no telling how the Ping-Pong balls will bounce come lottery day, but something unusual happened to the Boston Celtics last year. They got lucky.
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ANAHEIM, California  - The Anaheim Ducks needed just 14 years to win their first Stanley Cup but are going to need more time to win over fans.
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Oregon has made a habit of beating top-10 teams this season. The 23rd-ranked Ducks latest victory over a highly-ranked opponent couldn't have come at a better time, with losses in six of their last eight games and their NCAA tournament hopes fading.
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Here's something to ponder when you bite into your next chicken wing: A new study says about 60 percent of the genes in the critter you're eating have close cousins in your own DNA.
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By Rich Elliott, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 17--STORRS -- The path to a Big East championship has been lined with learning, growth and cohesion. The UConn women have used the first 12 league regular season games to jockey for position to win a title.
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Biologists have fought long and sometimes bitterly about how birds evolved -- but a new study published on Thursday suggests that their intellectual battle may have been all in vain.
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Merrimack College's hockey team hasn't had much to cheer about this season, but if last weekend's back-to-back Hockey East series against Vermont was any indication, the Warriors could be heading for better times. Merrimack played the highly-ranked Catamounts dead even in both games, which ended in 1-1 ties, and picked up two points for its efforts. It was the first ...
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Brian Rolston, Marian Gaborik and Mikko Koivu score less than two minutes apart in the second period, and the Wild beat the Ducks, 5-1, on Wednesday, it's third win in four games.
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A new study shows that climate uncertainty has influenced the evolution of cooperative behavoir in African starlings.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.