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

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processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. The new 48-genome analysis included only ostrich and tinamou DNA, so it doesn’t shed further light on paleognath interrelationships, but it does reinforce their distinctiveness from all other living birds. This is why.

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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! Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally.

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