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Ancient Airways: Flying Drone Design Based On Prehistoric Flying Reptile
Paleontologists and
aeronautical engineers have
developed a 30-inch robotic
spy plane modeled after a
225 million-year-old
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Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'
The latest breakthrough in a
120 year-old debate on the
evolution of the bird wing
was just published. Bird
wings only have three
fingers, having evolved from
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Meat-eating Dinosaur From Argentina Had Bird-like Breathing System
The remains of a
30-foot-long predatory
dinosaur discovered along
the banks of Argentina's Rio
Colorado is helping to
... > full story
Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England
A 50 million year old skull
reveals that huge birds with
a 5 meter wingspan once
skimmed across the waters
that covered what is now
... > full story
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America's Smallest Dinosaur Uncovered
September 25, 2008 — An unusual breed of dinosaur that was the size of a chicken, ran on two legs and scoured the ancient forest floor for termites is the smallest dinosaur species found in North America, according to a ... > full story -
Long-held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research
September 7, 2008 — Large flightless birds of the southern continents -- African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi -- do not share a common flightless ancestor as ... > full story -
Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists
July 9, 2008 — The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential ... > full story -
Huge Genome-scale Phylogenetic Study Of Birds Rewrites Evolutionary Tree-of-life
June 27, 2008 — The largest ever study of bird genetics redraws the avian evolutionary tree, challenges current classifications, alters our understanding of avian evolution, and provides a resource for future ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Probably Lacked Tissue To Generate Heat
April 27, 2008 — Scientists have discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. There is a surprising implication that the same lack of heat-generating tissue may have ... > full story -
Molecular Analysis Confirms Tyrannosaurus Rex's Evolutionary Link To Birds
April 25, 2008 — Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs' closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein -- along with that of 21 ... > full story -
No Easy Answers In Evolution Of Human Language
February 21, 2008 — The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene a professor of computational linguistics. Some researchers in recent years ... > full story -
Did Birds Originate When Dinosaurs Went Extinct, Or Have They Been Around Far Longer?
February 8, 2008 — Did modern birds originate around the time of the dinosaurs' demise, or have they been around far longer? The question is at the center of a sometimes contentious "rocks versus clocks" debate between ... > full story -
Why Dinosaurs Had 'Fowl' Breath
November 7, 2007 — Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived. Theropod dinosaurs like the Velociraptor had similar respiratory ... > full story -
Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos
November 6, 2007 — The earliest birds acted more like turkeys than common cuckoos, according to a new article. By comparing the claw curvatures of ancient and modern birds, the researchers provide new evidence that the ... > full story
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