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Birds-Of-Paradise Found To Biofluoresce From The Tips Of Their Beaks To Their Toes
Birds-of-paradise number around 45 species and typically have elaborate feathers, colors, and mating displays. Birds also ...
Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
The Java sparrow is ready for the video recording. As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording ...
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‘Weird and wonderful’: Antarctic fossil forces scientists to redraw the bird family tree
In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...
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Mad at your ex? For Valentine’s Day, this Alaska bird rescue center will name a rat after them and feed it to a raptor
Inside a chilly enclosure, a 7-year-old peregrine falcon named Breland plucked at a frozen rat carcass with her beak, tearing ...
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This 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-like Skull Reveals How Modern Birds Survived the Dinosaurs
The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.
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Bird beaks offer insight into the species
Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...
Fossil of oldest known modern bird uncovered in Antarctica, offers new evolutionary clues
A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits ...
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It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild
That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...
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What were the first birds like?
Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often aquatic ones – have ridges on their beaks. These may function similarly to simple teeth by helping the birds to hold on to ...
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It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wild
Dead from bird flu. And it wasn't just elephant seals. There were terns – with their yellow beaks and black heads – stumbling about having seizures on the sand. The scene played out again and ...