Genetics reveal 15 new N.American bird species
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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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Scientists have found two separate breeding pairs of palila nearly a year after the endangered birds were reintroduced to the northern slopes of Mauna Kea.
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The Stanford study involved analysis of all 9,787 species of birds alive today, and of the 129 species that have gone extinct recently, to produce one of the most comprehensive databases ever compiled on the state of one class of animals.
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THE enduring mystery of why the chicken really did cross the road has come a step closer to being solved definitively, following a detailed analysis of the birdâs genetic blueprint.
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Scientists have published a detailed analysis of the chicken genome, the biochemical &quot;code&quot; in the bird&#39;s cells that makes the animal what it is.
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MANILA, Philippines - Filipino and British wildlife researchers say they&#39;ve stumbled upon what appears to be a new species of flightless bird found only on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern ...
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Some of the most common birds seen and heard in American back yards are becoming a less frequent sight and sound in much of the United States, according to a study released by the National Audubon Society.
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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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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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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Could the awesome and seemingly limitless power of DNA be focused on a parakeet?  That question is intriguing historians who want to bring back the extinct Carolina parakeet - the only parrot species native to South Carolina.
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The National Audubon Society&#39;s State of the Birds report draws on data collected between 1966 and 2003 for 654 American bird species.
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TWITCHERS should book their plane tickets as soon as possible. Wildlife experts yesterday claimed to have discovered a new species of bird in the Philippines. But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by ...
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A bird known by her wing band number, 256, is about to cause a huge flap in genetics, one which could change our understanding of human evolution and bird behaviour and help to prevent another global influenza pandemic.
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A new study states that 60% of the genes in chicken have close relations to human DNA. This may not comfort those who frequently eat the creature, but may ponder this the next time they order a batch of chicken wings.
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Scientists have analyzed the genetic makeup of chickens, and it is providing valuable information about how human genes work. Washington University Genome Sequencing Center led a group of international researchers
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To help shoppers avoid mislabeled toxic pufferfish and pilots steer clear of birds, federal agencies are starting to tap into an ambitious project that is gathering DNA "barcodes" for the Earth's 1.8 million known species.