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From dinosaurs to birds, the origin of feathers remains a mystery
Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.
Scientists found a fossil of a Jurassic bird. Here's how it could rewrite history.
Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.
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Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
a discovery that rewrites the history of avian evolution. The newly identified bird, called Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany in 1861 ...
Newly Discovered Jurassic Bird Rewrites History
A quail-size fossil uncovered in China suggests birds evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought.
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Birds-of-Paradise Feathers Are More Than Flashy—They Glow
Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...
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Birds’ nests reveal history of the plastic age
His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in the scientific journal Ecology. “You flip through these nests like through pages of a ...