Ancient American bird was glider
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The largest bird known to have taken to the skies would have been a remarkable glider, scientists say.
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A 121 million-year-old baby arboreal bird, fossilised while still curled in its egg, has been found in China, Science magazine reports this week.
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The velociraptor, the fierce scaly-skinned dinosaur made popular by the film &quot;Jurassic Park,&quot; actually had feathers, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
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The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought, scientists said Wednesday.
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Chinese palaeontologists say they have found feathers on the fossilised legs of a primitive bird, which back controversial theories that birds descended from four-limbed dinosaurs.
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The bird, dubbed the &quot;Calayan Rail&quot;, is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the expedition that found it.
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A fossil unearthed in China may provide a first look at dinosaurs&#39; bird-like sleep. Xu Xing, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Mark Norell, of the American Museum of Natural History, said in a report
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At this time of year, the world seems built for birds on the wing.
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Was it a bird, was it a plane....? Paleontologists have unearthed a T-Rex-sized "bird dinosaur", dubbed Gigantoraptor erlianensis. The beast, which lived 65 million years ago, stood five metres tall, was eight metres long, and would have weighed in at around 1.5 tonnes.â¦
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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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An animal the size of a small squirrel experimented with aerial life about the same time as birds, scientists said.
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The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is flying high after spending three decades in recovery. On Thursday, the U.S. took the eagle off the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list.
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By Chen Liang  In "The Age of Dinosaurs," it was not just birds and pterosaurs (winged reptiles) that flew as thought till now  there was also a "flying squirrel" which could glide down from treetops like a bat.
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Max the stork, currently the oldest animal being tracked by satellite, is flying north after a remarkably short winter sojourn in southern Spain, a natural history museum in Switzerland said Wednesday.
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The first bird case has been confirmed by the Pueblo County Health Department. Officials will now survey the area where the bird was found.
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A wild-born condor chick has taken flight -- the first wild chick to fly in California in 22 years. The chick slowly began the process of fledging (first flight) by leaving the nest in early September and
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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?