About one-fifth of the world's bird species migrate. For birds, every migration is an epic, often dangerous, endurance marathon. Here are some extraordinary birds that migrate very long distances. Champion of long-distance continuous flight altitude—Bar-headed Goose,&nbs...
1. Birds in the world today evolved in the age of dinosaurs. The scientific community generally believes that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds, and many dinosaurs themselves also had feathers. 2. At the same time, dinosaurs also have a relatively c...
How do birds learn to fly? Were the earliest birds arboreal creatures that glided from trees to the ground, or were they bipedal land animals that evolved wings and developed a preference for long-distance hopping? Researchers have not formed a unified understanding of this....
Recently, a new bird fossil site was discovered near Sihedang Town, Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province. Initially, it was reported that all the bird fossils produced at this site belong to the same modern bird: Iteravis huchzermeyeri ). The bird fossil origins of the Early Cretaceous are genera...
On February 1, Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe, Zou Jingmei of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Pan Yanhong of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology reported in Nature Communications a discovery of 130 million The Early Cretac...
On May 26, Zhou Zhonghe’s research team at the Institute of Vertebral Paleolithology reported in Scientific Reports a new pheasant fossil material with nearly complete skeleton preservation. The specimen was found in the Hezheng area of the Linxia Basin, an area adjacent to the Qinghai-Tibet...
Recently, Wang Min, Zhou Zhonghe, and Thomas from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published the latest research results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reporting on an early Cretaceous primitive bird dis...
Dinosaurs are oviparous reptiles, and like birds, they reproduce by laying eggs. We know that some bird eggs are very large, such as goose eggs, which weigh about half a catty (250 grams), and ostrich eggs can reach about 1,500 grams. , so how big should a dinosaur egg be?In fact, dinosaurs came in...
This series of articles divides birds into six categories based on ecosystems: migratory birds, wading birds, climbing birds, raptors, land birds, and songbirds. This article introduces songbirds belonging to the six categories, a total of 22813 Words, 325 species of birds, a total of 298 high-defin...