Angry Birds: ‘Look out below’ say Lubbock’s avian residents

By Urvi Dalal and Reece Nations When passing certain areas on Texas Tech’s campus, one can expect to see and hear the birds that inhabit its trees. What might come as a surprise to some and a modest hazard to others is that these birds will sometimes swoop towards pedestrians who venture too close to […]

Texas Tech Students, Professors Study Monarch Butterflies

Monarch butterflies have wingspans of about 4 inches, which carry them thousands of miles on an annual migration to wintering grounds in Mexico and Southern California. Scott Longing, an assistant professor in the department of plant and soil science, said these butterflies will fly back down to Mexico, where their great-great grandparents were born. “They […]