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Birds

Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

June 27, 2018 by Greg 8 Comments

Let us begin by establishing the following facts as true: – I am not a monkey’s uncle, yet, in a certain way, I am....

Birds

How The Bird Got Its Beak

May 19, 2015 by Greg 1 Comment

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...

Reviews

Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan

February 3, 2015 by Donna 1 Comment

My knowledge of dinosaurs started and stopped with Jurassic Park (the movie, not the theme park), Patrick’s Dinosaurs, a charming book my daughter read in grade school,...

Birds

Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

August 19, 2014 by Greg 6 Comments

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...

Birds

A Fun Reminder

May 13, 2013 by Corey 1 Comment

It’s always good to be reminded that when you are looking at birds you are actually looking at dinosaurs. And xkcd is excellent at...

Birds

Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

June 16, 2011 by Greg 23 Comments

Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make...

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Kai Pflug (weekly)
Birding Lodges of the World
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