News tagged with bird wing
Four-winged dinosaur's feathers were black with iridescent sheen
A team of American and Chinese researchers has revealed the color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. The non-avian dinosaur's ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A six-legged, 25 gram robot has been fitted with flapping wings in order to gain an insight into the evolution of early birds and insects.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx dressed for flight
Since its discovery 150 years ago, scientists have puzzled over whether the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx represents the missing link in birds' evolution to powered flight. Much of the debate has focused on the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Eagle Owls Send Sweeter Valentines When Moon Is Full
(PhysOrg.com) -- Placing a tracking device on breeding owls with a wing span large enough to cover eight humans lined up side-by-side, is not a walk in the park. But, funded by a grant from the Spanish Ministry ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Findings show ancient birds died in flash flood
(PhysOrg.com) -- During a presentation at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's 71st annual Meeting in Las Vegas, researchers Gareth Dyke and Darren Naish from the University of Southampton presented their findings of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Prehistoric bird used club-like wings as weapon
Long before the knights of medieval Europe wielded flails or martial artists brandished nunchucks, it appears that a flightless prehistoric bird used its own wings as a similar type of weapon in combat.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Wisconsin lab says it solved blackbird die-off
The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved, federal scientists say.
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Archaeopteryx and the dinosaur-bird family tree
The magpie-sized Archaeopteryx had bird and dinosaur features and helped show that birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, recent research in the journal Nature questions its position in the dinosaur-bird family ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Bad news for us, or just for the birds?
Roughly 5,000 dead and dying blackbirds fell from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. That mysterious event was followed by the appearance of about 500 dead birds along a Louisiana highway and additional bird-falls in Kentucky, ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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