So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in 1861 just two years after the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, but Archaeopteryx ...

Baba Dioum (1937 - current) A recent deep dive into the genomics of several cockatoo taxa by an international team of scientists has revealed these parrots comprise three distinct species — not ...

These findings, published in the journals Molecular Biology and Evolution and Molecular Ecology, could help guide future conservation efforts. Triton Cockatoo reconfirmed as a distinct species ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of ...

Dr. Arthur Sands, an expert on cockatoos from SBS and the main author of the study in Molecular Biology and Evolution, emphasized the importance of this distinction.He said, "Introducing the wrong ...

an expert on cockatoos from SBS and the main author of the study in Molecular Biology and Evolution, emphasised the importance of this distinction, he said, ‘Introducing the wrong species in the ...