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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

10,000 Birds

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Or These Blasts From The Past Preening Juvenile Yellowthroat Welcome to New Zealand! So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. Get yours today!

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