A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

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Researchers believe this discovery offers new insights into bird evolution. The fossil has a short tail ending in ... only known bird from the Jurassic Period. This fossil now suggests that ...

Researchers have discovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China, featuring a short tail structure ... of birds during the Jurassic Period (145 million to 201.3 million years ...

A recent fossil find fills in a glaring prehistoric bird gap. The Jurassic period claims Archaeopteryx (sometimes called ... Meanwhile, most Cretaceous avian progenitors appear more birdlike, with ...

A review reveals current bird flu control strategies are ineffective, calling for improved measures to tackle the ongoing spread of the virus. A study on sustained mammal-to-mammal transmission of ...

Oh, bird, you sing and croon with joy ... The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the ...

birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in Merwin’s 2005 National Book Award–winning collection called, yes ...