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Florida lawmakers are reviving a debate about whether the flamingo should replace the mockingbird as the state bird. They ...

Japan’s Kanji of the Year 2025 is 熊 (bear). Here’s why it won, what it says about Japan.

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Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird as the state bird. The proposed legislation would designate the American flamingo as the official state bird and the Florida ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

(NEXSTAR) – In a world of weird dating trends and theories, like “Shrekking” and “monkey barring,” it can be refreshing to come across advice that’s actually helpful. One such trend is making the ...

Bird Game 3 is all over TikTok, but if you're sitting here wondering why you've never heard of the first or second game, there's a reason for that. Bird Game 3 isn't real, but you wouldn't know that ...

Turkey, the Thanksgiving bird, has shaped language and identity and caused a country to change its name. Credit: Mark Peters / CC BY 2.0 For centuries, the word Turkey has sparked a strange linguistic ...

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