A team of scientists led by Dr. HU Han from University of New England, Australia and Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported ...
Archaeology
Sep 11, 2019
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Farmers have had long-running battles trying to keep birds of many varieties from eating their sweetcorn. They've used propane cannons, visual deterrents and even shotguns, but none succeed for very long.
Ecology
Aug 27, 2019
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When an asteroid smacked into the Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered mass extinctions all over the planet. The most famous victims were the dinosaurs, but early birds, insects, and other life forms took a hit too. The ...
Evolution
Jun 28, 2019
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Talk about your big bird.
Archaeology
Jun 27, 2019
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Four small artefacts found on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga are among the earliest tattooing equipment known. Two have been found to be made from human bone.
Archaeology
Mar 05, 2019
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The Beast from the East, a polar vortex which brought freezing conditions to the UK, arrived on February 26 2018. Two days later there was a minimum temperature of -11.7°C (10.9˚F) at South Farnborough in Hampshire, and ...
Ecology
Feb 27, 2019
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Most of the birds you've ever seen—sparrows, finches, robins, crows—have one crucial thing in common: they're all what scientists refer to as perching birds, or "passerines." The passerines make up about 6,500 of the ...
Archaeology
Feb 07, 2019
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A newly identified extinct bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China provides new information about avian development during the early evolution of flight.
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2018
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In a new paper published in National Science Review, a team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, and the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...
Archaeology
Mar 24, 2017
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Scientists have recently discovered a new bohaiornithid bird specimen from the Early Cretaceous Period of China with remarkably preserved feathers. Bohaiornithid birds belonged to enantiornithes, a group of avian dinosaurs ...
Archaeology
Nov 14, 2016
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