#flightlessbirds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #flightlessbirds, aggregated by home.social.
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The Kagus Bird Is Seriously Endangered, And If It Goes Extinct, Its Unique Genetic Nasal Skin Flaps Goes With It » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock There are many animals on Earth that are endangered and at serious risk of going extinct. It…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Genetics #Animals #birds #conservation #Endangeredspecies #flightlessbirds #kagus #nasalcorns #NewCaledonia #Science #singletopic #top
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The hidden rule for flight feathers and how it could reveal which #dinosaurs could fly
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-hidden-flight-feathers-reveal-dinosaurs.htmlFunctional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306639121
"in addition to asymmetrical feathers, all the flighted #birds had between nine and 11 primary #feathers. In #FlightlessBirds, the number varies widely— #penguins have more than 40, while #emus have none. It's a deceptively simple rule that's seemingly gone unnoticed by #scientists."
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Gizmodo: Record-Low Ice Levels in Antarctica Killed Thousands of Penguin Chicks, Study Says https://gizmodo.com/low-ice-levels-antarctica-killed-thousands-of-penguins-1850776250?utm_source=regular #theusfishandwildlifeservice #flightlessbirds #emperorpenguin #peterfretwell #adeliepenguin #humaninterest #environment #kingpenguin #antarctica #penguin #bird #tern