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In late May 2025, a video (archived) circulated online purportedly showing a starling murmuration — a spectacle where starlings gather in the thousands at dusk and collectively fly in shape-shifting ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The video did not carry any visible signs (such as a watermark or logo) that it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

As the sun falls over a vast marshland, more than a million starlings undulate in mesmerising murmurations. But how, exactly, they do it remains mysterious. When viewed individually, the humble ...