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Puffin bird-inspired robot flaps its wings to travel through both air and water
Experts spend years trying to build robotic systems that can both fly and dive.
Inspired by diving birds, roboticists built the lightweight machines to move from water to air. The design may one day lead ...
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Birdlike robot swims underwater, then flaps into flight without paddling
Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can ...
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The tiny window each year when puffins return to shore
For most of the year, puffins vanish into the open ocean and live like ghosts. But for a few chaotic weeks each summer, these ...
EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine – Wanted: puffinologists. No experience necessary. The Audubon Society wants bird lovers to contribute research to a project scientists hope will help save Atlantic puffins ...
Perhaps puffins aren't as bird-brained as previously believed.A team of animal experts observed two Atlantic puffins, more than 1,000 miles apart, spontaneously scratching themselves with sticks -- ...
The Audubon Society wants bird lovers to contribute research to a project scientists hope will help save Atlantic puffins from starvation in Maine. There are about 1,000 pairs of the seabirds, known ...
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