Oregon's season is over after a 6-5 loss to Texas in the Austin Regional. The Ducks finished with 43 wins, their most since 2014.

Oregon dropped Game 1 of the Austin Super Regional, 11-3, after Texas built an early lead. The Ducks will try to even the series Sunday.

Oregon defeated Oregon State 4-1 to win the Eugene Regional and advance to the NCAA baseball super regionals against Texas.

Oregon and Oregon State are the top two seeds in the Eugene Regional and could meet with a trip to the NCAA super regionals at stake.

We love indie animation in this house. As tools for both 2D and 3D animation continue to become more widespread and accessible, the creativity in the output of hobbyists sitting in their bedrooms often rivals that of large studios. If anything, we know for a fact they're not in it for the money, because independent creative work pays terribly unless your parents have a Wikipedia page. — Read the…

Kenyon Sadiq and Dillon Thieneman were drafted in the first round Thursday. What other Ducks players will get the call this weekend?

Dillon Thieneman had 92 tackles, five pass breakups, two interceptions, three tackles for loss and a sack his junior season with the Ducks.

Sadiq had 51 catches for 560 yards and eight touchdowns as a junior last season with the Ducks.

Katie Fiso scored 22 points and Oregon used a dominant third quarter to pull away from Virginia Tech for a 70-60 win Friday to open the NCAA Tournament.

by Courtney Vaughn

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West Coast college baseball is surging again with UCLA, Southern California and Oregon out to fast starts.

Oregon quarterback Dante Moore has revealed he struggled with mental health issues associated with the pressures of major college football.

Ellen falls in love with the Mandarin duck. We discuss why waterfowl's webbed feet don't freeze in the winter, the evolutionary arms race between male and female ducks, New York City's local celebrity Hot Duck, your new favorite coffee order, and more. Works Cited:

1. "Countercurrent Exchange" - Dr. Roger Lederer, ornithology.org
2. “Coevolution of Male and Female Genital Morphology in…

I subscribe to Cornell Lab's All About Birds RSS feed. Through the feed, I learned that "[t]he oldest known Mallard was a male, and at least 27 years, 7 months old when he was shot in Arkansas in 2008. He had been banded in Louisiana in 1981." Impressive, albeit an unfortunate end to a mallard life well-lived.

A reconstruction of the St Bathans goose, _Metechen luti_.

Artwork by Sasha Votyakova,
© Te Papa CC BY 4.0

New Zealand Giant Geese (_Cnemiornis_)

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‘Old Mother Goose’ adds to history of NZ birds | University of Otago

This paper is another of those that will probably excite creationists initially, but then set up more cognitive dissonance because the…