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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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The Common Waxbill looks like it belongs in a pet shop rather than in the wild. In fact, this is probably a species that has substantially expanded its original range through the pet shop route and the resulting escapees. Cute looks and adaptability as a cage bird conferring an evolutionary advantage. On the ground?

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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And one of the things you do is to study old documents, and you have this old book, this very very old book, that chronicles the life and times of some historic people in some historic period, but you don’t know exactly when it is from or where it was written. Imagine you study history. That’s what Archaeopteryx is.

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