article thumbnail

Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

Birds 212
article thumbnail

What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. Imagine you study history. This and other traits (such as feathers and bipedality) evolved in the common ancestor of a huge category of dinosaurs that happens to include birds.

Mammals 247