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    How birds got their wings

    A branch of the tree of life that includes the time when the propatagium, vital to flight in future birds, came about. "Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has...
  2. The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us All

    The Crisis for Birds Is a Crisis for Us All This is what makes the spiteful actions to remove animals from the endangered species list all the more important. When all you care about is money, it's good for that individual, but everyone pays later.
  3. New creationist study accepts the existence of feathered dinosaurs

    This study was presented earlier today at the International Conference on Creationism: Feathered dinosaurs reconsidered: insights from baraminology and enthnotaxonomy Since the author (Matthew McLain) is a creationist, he can't accept that birds actually are descended from dinosaurs, but I'm...
  4. Fellow Bird Lovers ? :)

    Are there any other bird lovers here? I wanted to start this thread to share some pictures and/or stories of our lovely feathered friends. :) I have had many birds over the years, doves, chickens, turkeys, quail, peafowl, guineas, ducks, and geese. I think, overall, my favourite have...
  5. American Robin

    These two pic alone took about 2 hours to get. Every time I would focus my camera it would move. So I ended up going into the woods where it was,climbing a tree and finally was able to capture two decent photos.
  6. Lets see them birds! (or any pet)

    I have 6 birds! 5 cockatiels and an African Grey. Momma 'tiel- Coco Daddy 'tiel- Ollie Baby 'tiels- Ziggy, Zach, Youngster I wish I had a picture of the 'tiels together and SITTING STILL! But I have one of the Big Baby Bird - D.J. (Davy Jones because he has little nubs) If anyone has any birds...
  7. I know this forum likes birds, but...

    Can we make an exception to our sub-forum's general positive feelings towards birds for this one particular species? Personally, I think the one to the right of my computer screen would make the better President, despite their roughly equal brain sizes... Also, the bird has bigger hands. ;)
  8. Creationist classification of theropods

    I recently wrote this article as a guest post for the Panda's Thumb blog. I think the other people here might find it interesting: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2016/11/creationist-class.html I don't recall having seen anyone on this forum making the "all clearly feathered dinosaurs are...
  9. Hummingbirds Disprove Creationism

    A few facts and a conclusion: Hummingbirds live in the Americas but not in the Old World of Europe, Africa or Asia. There are hundreds of hummingbird species in South America but only 15 to 17 in North America. Conclusion: It looks like hummingbirds evolved in South America. The Creationist...