Birds can fly, swim, sing, speak, use tools and save problems, navigate halfway around the globe, and do many other amazing and surprising things. And they made it through the last mass extinction, while their larger fellow dinosaurs were wiped out. Reason enough to have a think about how they came to be so colourful, clever and/or weird, which I'm doing in my latest feature which is out now:
How birds evolved to be different
Current Biology Volume 29, issue 10, pages R341-R344, May 20, 2019
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Black-collared Starling (Gracupica nigricollis), Long Valley, Hong Kong - Photo by Daniel J. Field, University of Cambridge.
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