Search results for extinct birds:
Macaws face possible extinction
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Oct 24, 2006 |
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A U.S. bird expert says one of the world's most colorful birds -- the macaw, the largest member of the parrot family -- is in danger of becoming extinct.
Bird migration from Africa in decline
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Apr 22, 2008 |
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British researchers said it appears the number of birds that migrate to Europe from Africa every spring is in decline.
Study: Birds going extinct at faster rate
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Jul 05, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say human activities have caused some 500 bird species worldwide to become extinct since the year 1500 and the rate is rising.
Why dinosaurs had fowl breath
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived.
High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 14, 2009 |
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The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...
Giant bird feces records pre-human New Zealand
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A treasure trove of information about pre-human New Zealand has been found in faeces from giant extinct birds, buried beneath the floor of caves and rock shelters for thousands of years.
Insects, plants vanishing from Britain
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Jun 25, 2006 |
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Hundreds of species of British insects and plants have been quietly disappearing while public attention as been focused on birds and mammals.
Scientists nail quail mystery
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Massey biology researcher has used DNA analysis to prove quail on Tiritiri Matangi Island are Australian and not remnants of an extinct New Zealand species.
Scientists 'rebuild' giant moa using ancient DNA
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New Zealand.
Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday.
Report: Nearly all native birds in Hawaii in peril
Mar 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.
Hawaiian honeyeaters' long-lost relatives found
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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Despite appearances, Hawaii's five species of recently extinct songbirds known as honeyeaters bore no close relationship at all to the honeyeaters found in Australia and New Guinea, according to a genetic analysis reported ...
Great bustards to be released on Salisbury Plain
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and conservationists from the Great Bustard Group will be releasing 19 birds on Salisbury Plain on Thursday 25 September as part of an ongoing reintroduction project in ...
Extinct parrot resurfaces in Aberdeen
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Jan 30, 2007 |
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The University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum (UK) has taken care of a case of mounted Australian birds, one of which is the spectacular but sadly extinct Paradise Parrot Psephotus pulcherrimus.
Despite their heft, many dinosaurs had surprisingly tiny genomes
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Mar 07, 2007 |
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They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird.
