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Tyrannosaurus Rex's family may have just been expanded by a new member, researchers with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in New York City, say. They were part of a time that discovered a new species of large dinosaur in northeastern China. The area is known for the high amount of fossils it conta... |
5 April 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin (UT-Austin) say that the latest analysis of a Microraptor fossil reveals that the ancient, four-winged dinosaur featured iridescent plumage, possibly for the purpose of attracting mates. The creature lived more than 120 million years ago, and was about the size of a ... |
9 March 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Hummingbirds are capable of performing spectacular aerial maneuvers when flying through the rain. These maneuvers help them eliminate water from their plumage, allowing them to remain aloft even when other birds are grounded.
Scientists were puzzled to find out that this is the case, especially since it is widely k... |
10 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say that they have taken the first steps towards figuring out how birds looked like more than 100 million years ago, during a time when dinosaurs still ruled the world.The fact that birds are directly derived from dinosaurs ... |
1 July 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Researchers have recently developed a new type of laser, one that can produce high-intensity laser light of almost any color by mimicking the nanoscale structure of colorful feathers found on some birds.This advancement was made possible by the fact that researchers managed to master and replicate the way birds'... |
9 May 2011
05:40 GMT |
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A new study carried out by Juan Amat, from the Estación Biológica de Doňana in Seville, Spain and colleagues, shows that flamingos add natural color to their feathers during mating season, in order to look their best and attract mates.The researchers observed the Phoenicopterus roseus flamingo in Spain,... |
25 October 2010
11:16 GMT |
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Studies of fossilized feathers revealed that the earliest ancestors of modern birds could not readily flap their wings and soar to the air. The research showed that, while the wings themselves were indeed developed, and ready to take the creatures to the skies, the feathers were far from ready to generate enough lift... |
15 May 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Researchers in China announce in a new scientific paper that feathered dinosaurs appeared to have changed their plumage as they got older. According to a team of experts, which analyzed fossils portraying individuals of the same species at various ages, the changes were very obvious and significant, and represented a... |
29 April 2010
04:47 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have determined that dinosaur exhibited the same type of wrists that birds would later employ long before animal flight developed. According to the experts, the flexible type of joint that allowed birds then to fold their wings were a common presence in fully-terrestrial a... |
3 March 2010
03:30 GMT |
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Scientists were puzzled to learn in a new study that some birds had the ability to use their ornamental feathers in very much the same ways cats used their whiskers. In other words, the winged creatures can sense their surroundings using a type of feathers that biologists thought to simply play a role in mate attract... |
15 February 2010
19:51 GMT |
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Sometime in 2004, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China provided experts with the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that could not be cataloged. At that time, experts who had seen it had proposed that the creature was part of a new species, and their predictions eventually turned out to be true. The animal was named... |
29 January 2010
00:43 GMT |
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In a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature, researchers in China detail the appearance of a small dinosaur that lived more than 125 million years ago. Known as Sinosauropteryx, the tiny animal, which wasn't even tall enough to reach your knee, appears to hav... |
28 January 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Accord to leading paleontologists, a new, exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in north-eastern China represents the earliest known feathered animal at this point. Estimated to have lived about 150 million years ago, the animal was petrified in mint condition, thus providing experts with the ability to ... |
25 September 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Scientists have recently discovered a previously unknown type of structure in birds' wings that is apparently responsible for creating a silver sheen in some species' wings. The weird thing is that, otherwise, these feathers would be completely black, the investigators say. They add that the new phenomenon ... |
21 September 2009
06:52 GMT |
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Bird species are widely known for their exquisite plumages, which are used to attract mates and show who is the boss within a group. For a long time, paleontologists and ornithologists wondered where this behavior originated, or exactly how old this “marketing mechanism” was. Recent analyses of fossilized... |
26 August 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Since the dawn of mankind, we have admired the wonderful colors of birds' plumages, and watched in awe how the peacock, for example, shows its beautiful feathers to attract mates. But a new scientific study comes to show that a large percentage of birds everywhere deals with a very serious problem – infect... |
3 August 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Hydrogen is, at this point, the leading source of alternative fuel in the world. Its potential to power up the cars and vehicles of tomorrow is only limited by the fact that there are currently no materials able to hold vast amounts of hydrogen. This is necessary for giving the vehicles a range similar to that they h... |
24 June 2009
03:17 GMT |
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New insight into how birds develop seems to point at the fact that the size of the flying creatures is not directly determined by the amount of effort they need to make in order to remain aloft, but rather by the necessity to be able to keep their feathers clean at all times. Apparently, this fact is more important t... |
16 June 2009
04:06 GMT |
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At the beginning of this year, an airplane was forced to make an emergency landing in the waters of the Hudson river in New York. The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the water, after a flock of birds hit one of its engines, forcing it to shut down. Now, using a sophisticated chemical analysis, experts have ... |
9 June 2009
01:42 GMT |
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Over millions of years of evolution, birds have managed to develop a highly efficient flight system, in which they use two types of feathers to fly. The longer, more stiff flight feathers help generate lift, while the second ones, coverts, are used to minimize drag while moving through the air. A team of Italian scie... |
13 April 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Almost all things that are colored in nature, from ourselves to the beautiful feathers of some birds, get their hues from pigments, which are produced by the skin, scales, hair, or whatever is covering the respective creature. However, some birds get their coloring from tiny, nano-scale structures that resemble beer ... |
6 April 2009
09:02 GMT |
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A newly discovered dinosaur fossil seems to change a paradigm that has been in effect for several decades, and namely that only the saurischian dinosaur families had feathers or other feather-like formations on their bodies. The heterodontosaurs that was found in China was herbivorous, and was part of a completely di... |
19 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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