Parakeets long gone, but DNA makes some wonder
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The Carolina parakeet, the only parrot that was native to South Carolina, vanished decades ago but in this age of high tech wizardry could DNA be used to bring the feathered creatures back?
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A gifted parrot that could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials has died after 30 years of helping researchers better understand the avian brain.
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In the search for a missing  evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up  with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with  the body of a small deer.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.
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Deep in the bayous of eastern Arkansas, two robotic video cameras keep vigil for an elusive bird, aiming to capture conclusive evidence the ivory-billed woodpecker is not, as long feared, extinct.
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An international scientific consortium decodes the chicken genome.
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An extremely rare Hawaiian bird has died in captivity, possibly marking the extinction of its species only 31 years after it was first discovered.
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The discovery also sheds light on the ancestry of modern brown bears, which has long puzzled researchers. A genetic analysis of the skull fragment indicates its owner was closely related to the brown bears
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Raucous squawking erupts from cages filled with dozens of parrots &#151; a hopeful sound from a species on the brink of extinction. The last chance of survival for the Puerto Rican parrot may lie in forest aviaries where these captive birds began their nesting in January under close observation.
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An extremely rare Hawaiian bird dies in captivity, possibly marking the extinction of its entire species only 31 years after it was first discovered.
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The latest creature to have its DNA fully decoded is the chicken. Scientists from 49 countries announce the completion of the International Chicken Genome Sequencing Project today in the science journal Nature.
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Carolus Linnaeus' system for assigning names to Earth's living creatures holds up over time, but in the age of DNA, some scientists hunger for a more modern approach.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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After spending months in remote northwest Florida swamps searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, researchers say they have seen and heard the rare bird once believed to be extinct.
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Genetic tests of North American birds show  what may be 15 new species including ravens and owls -- look  alikes that do not interbreed and have wrongly had the same  name for centuries, scientists said on Sunday.
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The group of dinosaurs that evolved into birds had small genomes, according to a study by US and British biologists that appears on Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Paleontologists have discovered a species of protorosaur, and they think the fossils hold the solution to the mystery of long-necked dinosaurs.