The ruff has one of the weirdest sexual systems in the world – all thanks to a large piece of chromosome that was flipped over 3.8 million years ago. A type of wading sandpiper, ruffs are named ...

Biologists have discovered the group of genes responsible for ruffs, a type of sandpiper, having four different genders, including a male that looks like a female and tricks females into mating.

Click on birds to find out what they are doing! Click here (1.4 MB, MP3 format) to hear an ancient CBC radio broadcast (Quirks and Quarks) describing my earier work on the ruff Since 1984, I have ...

Our rarest shorebird species was a ruff, a Eurasian bird that Larry Rosche found feeding in the shallows at the Salton Sea, courtesy of a tip from Guy McCaskie, the dean of California birders.

It’s not only birds that take part in lekking - wasps, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammal species all do it, too. The ruff is actually a sort of sandpiper.

A single gene that regulates testosterone levels in a 'crazy' species of shore bird controls the development of three wildly different types of males, a new study has found. Ruffs have long ...

Studies of a distinctive wading bird have identified a genetic quirk which gives rise to three types of male bird within the same species, according… ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: There are 294 different species of birds across 278 hotspots in Andhra Pradesh, according to data uploaded till Thursday as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and Campus ...

Hence, each ruff carries at least one Independent supergene variant. In addition, male Faeders exploit the courtship efforts of the Independents, and Faeder chicks are raised primarily by female ...

Ruff and his team found that subsurface bacteria and archaea are flourishing, even at depths where the energy supply is orders of magnitude lower than enjoyed by organisms in habitats that see the ...

Studies of a distinctive wading bird have identified a genetic quirk which gives rise to three types of male bird within the same species, according to researchers. Scientists at the University of ...