Archive for: Julia Clarke
Duck Dynasty
By Melissa Gaskill
New research tells us to forget everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs. If a time machine dropped modern day humans onto Antarctica’s Vega Island around...
Shaking Up the Bird Family Tree
By Rose Cahalan
The bird family tree may look a little different than previously thought. A study published this week in Nature is just one of at least 28 scientific papers to...
Modern Lessons From an Ancient Bird
By Rose Cahalan
More than 120 million years ago, a feathered dinosaur called Microraptor roamed what is now northeastern China. Unlike any bird alive today, it had four wings—two...