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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Climate Change Puts Picky #Penguin Eaters At Risk

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By Jenna Iacurci Jan 20, 2015    Climate change is putting picky penguin eaters at risk, according to a new stud...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Antarctic tourism may pose disease threat to #penguins

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19 December 2014 by Penny Sarchet A take-off in tourism could open the door to new bird diseases (Image: Frans Lanting/Nation...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Tooth loss in birds occurred about 116 million years ago

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Date: December 11, 2014 Source: University of California - Riverside Summary: A question that has intrigued biologists is:...

'Big Bang' of bird evolution mapped: Genes reveal deep histories of bird origins, feathers, flight and song

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  Crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds, sharing a common ancestor that lived around 240 million years ago and also ...

March of the penguin genomes

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Date: December 11, 2014 Source: BioMed Central Summary: Two penguin genomes have been sequenced and analyzed for the first tim...

Chickens and turkeys 'closer to dinosaur ancestors' than other birds

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Date: December 11, 2014 Source: University of Kent Summary: New research suggests that chickens and turkeys have experienced f...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Scientist found penguins will 'tolerate' people

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By Western Daily Press  |  Posted: December 06, 2014 ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Ancient penguin was a giant of NZ birdlife

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Friday Nov 28, 2014 Jamie Morton is science reporter at the NZ Herald. Dr Daniel Thomas holds a thigh bone from the fossil pengu...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Taking a deeper look at 'ancient wing'

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Date: November 5, 2014 Source: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Summary: ...

How the shape of eggs can help explain the evolutionary history of birds

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Date: November 5, 2014 Source: University of Lincoln Summary: The eggs of amniotes - mammals, reptiles and birds – come in a r...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Could hand-reared penguins help seed new colonies?

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November 5, 2014 Conservation This Week Along the Western Cape of South Africa lives a group of endangered ...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Seeing dinosaur feathers in a new light

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Date: October 30, 2014 Source: Universität Bonn Summary: Why were dinosaurs covered in a cloak of feathers long before the ear...