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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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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. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Cows do not.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. The Wild Trees boggled my mind.