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Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
As I hold it carefully in my hand in order to transfer it to the recording cage, the little gray bird bites my finger with ...
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Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal
DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.
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An important new fossil of the oldest known modern bird
A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai.  The fossil ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...