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Scientists have solved a 150-year-old mystery surrounding a giant bird believed to have gone extinct thousands of years ago DNA analysis revealed that the ancient bones belonged to larger versions of the common crane, a species still found in Europe…
There are around 40 specimens of the bird in the Geiseltal Collection. "Diatryma was probably a rare guest in the Geisetal. Otherwise, there would probably be more fossils," concludes Stache. Your Saliva Could Hold the Key to Detecting a Deadly Cancer…
New AI platform GenoMorph identifies candidate regulatory DNA linked to the dodo's distinctive craniofacial anatomy, while technologies adapted from earlier species programs advance Nicobar pigeon germ-cell development, chicken stem-cell chimeras and embryo gene editing. Unlike protein-coding genes, which provide instructions…
A remarkably preserved 150-million-year-old bird fossil discovered in China is challenging long-standing ideas about how birds evolved. Rather than developing increasingly sophisticated flight abilities, some of the earliest birds appear to have taken a very different evolutionary path, including losing…
Bird droppings carry nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from feeding grounds to distant forests, islands, and coral reefs. A garden can get plenty of sunshine and water and still struggle to grow. Plants need nutrients, too, which is why…
Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth’s chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest. Researchers from Cornell and five other institutions reviewed nearly 400 scientific papers to show how birds…
The Core Concept: Birds function as highly efficient, global nutrient transporters, processing resources through rapid consumption and metabolism, and distributing concentrated nutrients (like nitrogen and phosphorus) across vast distances and diverse ecosystems via their waste and bodies. Origin/History: While…
ITHACA, N.Y. - Birds play an outsized, underappreciated role in shaping Earth's chemistry, distributing nutrients across oceans, forests and coral reefs and sustaining life far beyond the nest. Researchers from Cornell and five other institutions reviewed nearly 400 scientific papers to show how…
Examining fossilised pigments, scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered new insights into blue colour tones in prehistoric birds. For some time, paleontologists have known that melanin pigment can preserve in fossils and have been able to reconstruct fossil…
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