News tagged with carnivorous birds

Dinosaurs with killer claws yield new theory about flight

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies has revealed how dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Deinonychus used their famous killer claws, leading to a new hypothesis on ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Climate change driving Michigan mammals north

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species ...

Biology / Ecology

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Change in developmental timing was crucial in the evolutionary shift from dinosaurs to birds: study

At first glance, it's hard to see how a common house sparrow and a Tyrannosaurus Rex might have anything in common. After all, one is a bird that weighs less than an ounce, and the other is a dinosaur that ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fasting for Lent forces hyenas to change diet

Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of wild animals. In Ethiopia, members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church stop ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Texas vulture study upends forensics

(AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists use physical experiments, computer modelling to explore efficiency of bladed tooth shape

Using a combination of guillotine-based experiments and cutting-edge computer modelling, researchers at the University of Bristol have explored the most efficient ways for teeth to slice food. Their results, ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New fossils of oldest American primate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have identified the first ankle and toe bone fossils from the earliest North American true primate, which they say suggests that our earliest forerunners may have dwelled or moved ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The Nanotechnology of Sundew and English Ivy

Fifteen small sundew plants perch on a window sill, collecting sunlight and eating meat in the lab of Mingjun Zhang on the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus. Sundew plants are carnivores, consuming ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Video shows tool use by a fish

The first video of tool use by a fish has been published in the journal Coral Reefs by Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Sierra Nevada red foxes are more common than once thought

At least half a dozen Sierra Nevada red foxes, a species once believed to have been nearly wiped out in the 1920s, roam the high country wilderness south of Yosemite, U.S. Forest Service biologists said Thursday.

Biology / Ecology

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New raptor dinosaur takes a licking keeps on ticking

Raptor dinosaurs like the iconic Velociraptor from the movie franchise Jurassic Park are renowned for their "fear-factor." Their terrifying image has been popularized in part because members of this group possess a greatly ...

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created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past

Paleontologists have discovered a group of more than 20 polar dinosaur tracks on the coast of Victoria, Australia, offering a rare glimpse into animal behavior during the last period of pronounced global warming, about 105 ...

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created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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