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Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind
Researchers at the University of Texas say the bird, once living in Madagascar, is a nocturnal species and is likely to be blind, based on studying its brain shape.
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Discovered the ancient bird lung intact after 120 million years
A group of scientists have just announced that they have discovered fossilized lungs of a bird dating back about 120 million years.
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Decoding fossil birds discovered the unknown species on Earth
The researchers say Archeopteryx is a transition fossil in the development of dinosaurs for birds.
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Detecting small birds like grasshoppers living with dinosaurs
Scientists have discovered a bird of small size like grasshoppers that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, the largest animal that ever existed on Earth.
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The bone of 115,000 years of a girl is eaten by prehistoric birds
Scientists discovered the bones of a Neanderthal child being eaten by giant birds. The bones of the arms seem to belong to girls 5 - 7 years old.
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Why do hundreds of Antarctic penguins turn into mummies?
The team happened to find cold and cold penguin carcasses preserved in the Long Peninsula of East Antarctica in 2016.
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The half-toned bird suspected of being massacred to extinction
The team of scientists led by the London Zoological Society (ZSL) studies the skeleton of two giant birds found on Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, Fox News reported yest…
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Secrets of 'DNA' helps dinosaurs dominate Earth
Researchers at the University of Kent, UK, say they have discovered a genetic secret that could help dinosaurs dominate the Earth for 180 million years.
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The first dinosaurs appeared on Earth
The oldest known dinosaur species appeared on Earth from the Three Siege Period, 243 million years ago.
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Suffering from meteorite disaster but why dinosaurs are extinct, birds are not?
About 66 million years ago, a giant meteorite hit Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all organisms on Earth, and warming the climate for 100,000 years.
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Detecting dandruff in dinosaur fossils 125 million years
Scientists found dandruff between the feathers of the fossil dinosaur microraptor 4 wings, the Independent on 27/5 reported.
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The 4000-year-old ship runs solar energy buried deep at the base of the Giza pyramid
Experts found many tombs intact and stored countless valuable items buried for thousands of years.
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The intact egg of a bird weighs half a ton
Aepyornis eggs, or elephant birds, are a valuable source of food for residents of Madagascar
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Archeopteryx dinosaurs fly like pheasants
An international research team used strong X-rays to look inside the bone of the species, showing that they are nearly empty, like modern birds.
Archeology
The most intact bird fossil in amber 99 million years
The body pressed by the small bird that lived 99 million years ago was discovered wrapped in a chiseled amber slab in Myanmar, National Geographic reported on February 2.