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Birds

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Biology’s Ten Worst Love Stories

Animal sex can get pretty weird

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A Fond Farewell from Amanda

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Juravenator: Germany’s Other Feathered Dinosaur

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Bird Sets Up Protection Racket to Ensure Meals

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Thomas Henry Huxley and the Dinobirds

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers.

Dinosaurs’ Living Descendants

China’s spectacular feathered fossils have finally answered the century-old question about the ancestors of today’s birds

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A “Perverted” View of Bird Evolution

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This Thanksgiving, Make a Wish on a Dinosaur

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Pink Flamingoes Attract Mates With Make-Up

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Tracking the Emergence of Birds

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Photo Contest Finalist: Chinstrap Penguins Climbing an Iceberg

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It’s Hawk Watch Season

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It’s All in the Hips: the Feathered Dinosaur Microraptor

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A Strange Sail-Backed, Bristly-Armed Dinosaur

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Rare Copy of Audubon’s Birds of America for Sale

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Don’t Get Strung Along by the “Ropen” Myth

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More Chicks at the National Zoo

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Should Oiled Birds Be Cleaned?

A pair of giant, extinct birds depicted on a rock in Australia could be the continent’s oldest work of art.

Extinct Bird Key to Dating Australia’s Oldest Cave Art

When humans first set foot on Australia’s northern shores, a bird three times the height of an emu, would have been on their menu

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Seven Endangered Seabirds Around the World

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