A baby barn owl demonstrates the natural neck flexibility of the owl. Researchers studied snowy, barred, and great horned owls.Image courtesy of marilyn barbone / shutterstock. Most animals, humans ...
Owls don't need eyes in the back of their heads to see what's behind them — they can just swivel their heads all the way around. In fact, many owl species, such as the barred owl, can rotate their ...
A new study suggests owls could rotate their heads a full 360 degrees. Researchers Panyutina and Kuznetsov used CT scans to analyze owl necks, discovering that neck joints and spinal coiling enable ...