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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. In order to test the mechanism, we used inhibitors of both pathways to replicate in chicken the ancestral amniote expression. See: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Turkeys, 3 or 4 species of woodpeckers, all kinds of song birds grace our view constantly. Stop by our blog for some nice shots and share the experience!! As I said, we are blessed.

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