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On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. For a long time the plants were mostly left untouched but their dead leaves and protoleaves were consumed by things like ancestral millipedes. Varricchio.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children. They provoke honeybee colonies, which then fly out and attack the bird. A giant squirrel, actually. Attack of the giant squirrels from Mars. Or something like that.

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