10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. You should have said whales. But birds are dinosaurs.

Camels 196

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 196

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make them dinosaurs. You’ll hear people tell you that birds are dinosaurs, and that is supposed to blow you away and make you go all gaga about birds and evolution. are convenient secondary uses.

Birds 268

Birds Primates Marsupials Whales 268

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Some of those mysterious creatures were birds. The most obvious place that cryptozoology and ornithology overlap is in the area of Lazarus taxa and would-be Lazarus taxa — the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Eskimo Curlew, Pink-headed Duck , and the like — birds that no one doubts existed once, whether or not they exist today.

Apes 159

Apes Birds Woodpeckers Primates 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

– Birds are indeed dinosaurs, yet, are indubitably not. Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur. For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. A term like “hooved animals” is monophyletic and a perfectly sound adaptive group, except for the whales.

Monkeys 134

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 134

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2019

Presuming that you want to bird Costa Rica, you would book a southbound flight (from N. Reachable by direct flights from Portugal, the island country of Sao Tome and Principe lying in the Gulf of Guinea, in the armpit of Africa, has about 140 bird species and 28 endemics – more endemics per square mile than anywhere else on Earth.

Costa Rica 188

Costa Rica Sri Lanka Rwanda Papua New Guinea 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

Birds, butterflies, flowers, reptiles – you name it, Gehan has covered it. No doubt, the big five of Sri Lanka include the biggest of the big ever – the Blue Whale , followed by Sperm Whale , Asian Elephant , Leopard and Sloth Bear. Okay, okay, huge and hard to miss aside, but what about birds?

Sri Lanka 193

Sri Lanka Whales Whaling Leopards 193