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Nov. 22, 2022 —A new study suggests that changes in land use within the last millennia drove the extinction of Madagascar's giant ...
Apr. 15, 2021 —It is an old-standing theory in evolutionary ecology: animal species on islands have the tendency to become either giants or dwarfs in comparison to mainland relatives. Since its formulation in the ...
July 22, 2020 —A large fruit-eating bird from Tonga joins the dodo in the lineup of giant island pigeons hunted to ...
Feb. 8, 2023 —Scientists have compared the relationship among the strength of flight bones, body mass, and the way modern birds fly to better understand the evolution of flight in birds and extinct animals, such ...
Jan. 13, 2022 —New research shows unless conservation actions are urgently stepped up, one of our most beautiful songbirds, the regent honeyeater, will be extinct within 20 ...
Aug. 11, 2021 —A new study has revealed that over the last 20,000 to 50,000 years, birds have undergone a major extinction event, inflicted chiefly by humans, which caused the disappearance of about 10 to 20 ...
Dec. 3, 2020 —Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new ...
May 12, 2022 —The authors of a major study on the once critically endangered pink pigeon say boosting the species' numbers is not enough to save it from extinction in the future. Despite the population ...
Mar. 16, 2021 —In a genetic surprise, ancient DNA shows the closest family members of an extinct bird known as the Haitian cave-rail are not in the Americas, but Africa and the South Pacific, uncovering an ...
Jan. 13, 2021 —The fascinating compound eyes of insects consist of hundreds of individual eyes known as 'facets'. In the course of evolution, an enormous variety of sizes and shapes has emerged, often ...