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Huxley’s Apocryphal Dinosaur Dinner
Fossil lore says 19th century naturalist T.H. Huxley realized that birds were dinosaurs when he carved into a Christmas turkey, but what really happened?
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Paleontologist Edward Hitchcock was one of the first dinosaur track experts, but why did he insist that birds left the footprints?
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The City Bird and the Country Bird
As in Aesop’s fable, there are advantages and disadvantages for birds living in the city
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The Columbines and Their Pollinators: An Evolutionary Tale
New research provides insight into an evolutionary concept introduced by Charles Darwin
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How A Pigeon Is Like A Helicopter
The bird changes direction with its whole body
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Dinosaurs have long been rumored to still survive in the Congo Basin, but is there any truth to the tall tales?
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Paleontologists Unveil the 11th Archaeopteryx
Just in time for the 150th anniversary year of Archaeopteryx, paleontologists announce an 11th specimen of the dinosaur-like bird
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The Invasive Species We Can Blame On Shakespeare
There are 200 million European starlings in North America, and they are a menace
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#5: With 25 billion chickens in the world, there are more of them than any other bird species
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The many fuzzy and feathery dinosaurs that have been discovered reveal one of the most magnificent evolutionary transformations in the history of life
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After an oil spill, should people put in the time and effort to clean up wildlife, or would it be better to just let the animals die?
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Same-Sex Finch Couples Form Strong Bonds
The ties between same-sex couples can be just as strong as those in heterosexual birds
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Male houbara bustards pay a steep price for wooing the ladies
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Most of us never come in contact with a deadly predator, but there are still enough encounters to remind us that humans are not the top of the food web
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Where the Pacific’s Predators Go
Scientists have found that predator species trade off between prey availability and water temperature in their travels
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How the Great White Egret Spurred Bird Conservation
I was certain that the bird’s plumage had to have been faked, but all the photographer did was darken the background. Those feathers were real
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50th Kori Bustard Makes History
The Smithsonian National Zoo welcomed another member into the fold June 15, when the 50th Kori Bustard chick hatched in the Bird House
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Jack Horner Explains How to Build a Dinosaur
By fiddling with the genetic toggles of birds, scientists might be able to reverse-engineer a dinosaurian creature
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