Submissions tagged with bird
(2 documents)
4 votes
A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers
Recent coelurosaurian discoveries have greatly enriched our knowledge of the dinosaur-bird transition, but all reported taxa close to this transition are from relatively well-known coelurosaurian g…
Received 24 September 2008 12:52 UTC; Posted 24 September 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
4 votes
Silent Spring – the lost call
The “silence” in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring1 alludes to the demise of bird populations through reproductive problems and death resulting from exposure to the pesticides of that time, many of whi…
Received 04 January 2008 18:39 UTC; Posted 08 January 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Earth & Environment
