Search Results - "Bird evolution"

Scientists in a flap over new fossil finds: Freaky fossils leave experts scratching heads over when birds first appeared.

Source: Week Junior: Science + Nature. Nov2023, Issue 67, p6-7. 2p.

Community-sourced sightings of atypical birds can be used to understand the evolution of plumage color and pattern.

Alternate Title: Las observaciones proporcionadas por la comunidad sobre avistamientos de aves atípicas pueden utilizarse para entender la evolución del color y el patrón del plumaje.

Authors: Aguillon, Stepfanie M. Shultz, Allison J.

Source: Ornithology (Oxford University Press). 10/5/2023, Vol. 140 Issue 4, p1-9. 9p.

Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity. (cover story)

Authors: Murray, Gemma G. R. Soares, André E. R. Novak, Ben J. et al.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 11/17/2017, Vol. 358 Issue 6365, p951-954. 4p. 3 Color Photographs, 1 Graph.

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California hummingbirds are evolving fast—because of feeders.

Authors: Nuwer, Rachel

Source: Science. 5/29/2025, Vol. 388 Issue 6750, p902-903. 2p.

Subjects: Beaks, Hummingbirds, Bird feeders, Bird evolution, Bird populations

An integrative approach to understanding bird origins.

Authors: Xing Xu Zhonghe Zhou Dudley, Robert et al.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 12/12/2014, Vol. 346 Issue 6215, p293-1-293-9. 10p.

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds.

Authors: Lee, Michael S. Y. Cau, Andrea Naish, Darren et al.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 8/1/2014, Vol. 345 Issue 6196, p562-566. 5p.

Genomic Diversity and Evolution of the Head Crest in the Rock Pigeon. (cover story)

Authors: Shapiro, Michael D. Kronenberg, Zev Cai Li et al.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 3/1/2013, Vol. 339 Issue 6123, p1063-1067. 5p.

How Birds Branched Out.

Authors: Wong, Kate

Source: Scientific American. Nov2020, Vol. 323 Issue 5, p44-49. 6p. 8 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs.

Subjects: Bird evolution, Jurassic Period, Saurischia, Carnivorous animals, Tyrannosaurus rex

Systematics and conservation of an endemic radiation of Accipiter hawks in the Caribbean islands.

Alternate Title: Sistemática y conservación de una radiación endémica de los gavilanes Accipiter en las islas del Caribe.

Authors: Catanach, Therese A. Halley, Matthew R. Allen, Julie M. et al.

Source: Ornithology (Oxford University Press). 7/1/2021, Vol. 138 Issue 3, p1-23. 23p.

Évolutions contrastées de deux populations de Tarier des prés Saxicola rubetra dans les Préalpes vaudoises.

Alternate Title: Contrasting evolutions of two populations of the Meadowsweet Saxicola rubetra in the Vaud Prealps.

Authors: Rime, Yann Hauser, Gilles Horch, Petra

Source: Nos Oiseaux. Jun2021, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p133-142. 10p.

Molecular phyloecology suggests a trophic shift concurrent with the evolution of the first birds.

Authors: Wu, Yonghua^1,2 wuyh442@nenu.edu.cn

Source: Communications Biology. 5/13/2021, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p1-13. 13p.

Bill size, bill shape, and body size constrain bird song evolution on a macroevolutionary scale.

Alternate Title: El tamaño del pico, la forma del pico y el tamaño corporal limitan la evolución del canto de las aves a una escala macro-evolutiva.

Authors: Demery, Amelia-Juliette Claire Burns, Kevin J. Mason, Nicholas A.

Source: Ornithology (Oxford University Press). 4/6/2021, Vol. 138 Issue 2, p1-11. 11p.

Mass survival of birds across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Molecular evidence.

Authors: Cooper, Alan Penny, David

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 2/21/1997, Vol. 275 Issue 5303, p1109-1113. 5p. 3 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 1 Graph.

Early adaptive radiation of birds: Evidence from fossils from northeastern China.

Authors: Hou, Lianhai Martin, Larry D.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 11/15/1996, Vol. 274 Issue 5290, p1164. 4p. 12 Black and White Photographs, 1 Diagram.

New look at jaw fossil rewrites centuries-old bird history.

Authors: Vogel, Gretchen

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 12/2/2022, Vol. 378 Issue 6623, p939-939. 2/3p. 1 Color Photograph.

The Evolution of What it Means to be a Species.

Authors: Righter, Robert

Source: Colorado Birds. Winter2022, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p85-87. 3p.

Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution.

Authors: Mitchell, Kieren J. Llamas, Bastien Soubrier, Julien et al.

Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 5/23/2014, Vol. 344 Issue 6186, p898-900. 3p.

Evolution of Body Mass in Bats: Insights from a Large Supermatrix Phylogeny.

Authors: Moyers Arévalo, Reyna Leticia Amador, Lucila I. Almeida, Francisca C. et al.

Source: Journal of Mammalian Evolution. Mar2020, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p123-138. 16p.

Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches.

Authors: Jezierski, Michał T

Source: Ornithology (Oxford University Press). Apr2024, Vol. 141 Issue 2, p1-8. 8p.

Subjects: Bird breeding, Endemic birds, Phylogeny, Sea birds, Bird evolution