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The Yankees have optioned right-hander Jake Bird to Triple-A, per a team announcement. A corresponding move has not yet been announced, though ESPN’s Jorge Castillo notes that right-hander Mark Leiter Jr. is expected back from the injured list today and could take Bird’s roster spot. Bird, 29, was one of the Yankees’ trio of potential high-leverage bullpen additions acquired ahead …

ARLINGTON, Texas – One-third of the Yankees’ trade deadline bullpen haul is headed for Triple-A. The Yankees optioned Jake Bird to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday morning, a day after he gave up a walk-off three-run home run to Josh Jung in a brutal 8-5, 10-inning loss to the Rangers on Monday night. It marked the second time in three outings …

Bird Flu May Be Airborne on Dairy Farms, Scientists Report  The New York Times Avian influenza now a global emergency  WATTPoultry.com Experts’ bird flu warning  Politico H5N1 in Dairy Cows Carries Low Risk to Humans  respiratory-therapy.com Air, wastewater may play roles in H5N1 transmission on dairy farms  CIDRAP Source link

MIAMI — Jake Bird and David Bednar ran into each other in the Denver airport around midnight Thursday and boarded a plane bound for Miami to join the Yankees, who had acquired them a few hours earlier at the trade deadline. At the time, those may have felt like two tickets to paradise. Their trip covered about 1,700 air miles, …

Trade details: New York Yankees acquire RHP David Bednar from the Pittsburgh Pirates for C/1B Rafael Flores, C Edgleen Perez and OF Brian Sanchez Yankees acquire RHP Jake Bird from the Colorado Rockies for 2B Roc Riggio and LHP Ben Shields The Yankees upgraded their bullpen with two moves Thursday, neither of which required them to dip into their deep …

The federal government has paid California dairy farms more than $230 million to subsidize losses in milk production resulting from bird flu, records show, an amount that the dairy industry expects to climb higher as more claims for damages are processed. The H5N1 bird flu has swept through more than 75% of California’s 1,000 dairy farms since August 2024, sickening …

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper published last week in the journal PeerJ, an international team of researchers describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in northeastern China’s Hebei Province. The fossil dinosaur, which they’ve …

If you saw this white and grayish blob sitting on a leaf, what would you think it was? If your first thought was “bird poop,” you’re actually not too far off. But if you look a little more closely, you might start to notice the “poop” looking almost … alive. That’s because it’s actually a caterpillar — a bird poop …

Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a formidable foe for most creatures. But around 13 million years ago, one of them may have fallen prey to an even larger creature, a team of paleontologists in Colombia have discovered after examining bite …

A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by films like Jurassic Park. A newly identified dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus qinglong, discovered in China, presents a significant shift in how scientists think about dinosaur behavior. Instead of the traditional portrayal of terrifying, roaring creatures, Pulaosaurus is believed to have communicated with chirps, much …