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<link><id>60613</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60613/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New fossil bird found]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new bird, Eoconfuciusornis is the oldest known confuciusornithid, a group unique to China. It therefore represents an early stage in bird evolution. Confuciusornithids lived from 120-131 million years ago and include the oldest birds with horny beaks.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>235</score><crdate>5/5/2008 2:25:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-05T02:25:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19805</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19805/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bird Flu Thwarts Jet Flight For Vulture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fears of bird flu thwarted the flight, and the vulture was freed in northern Thailand on Thursday, thousands of miles from home. China and South Korea refused to let the bird be flown through their capitals, despite tests showing it did not have bird flu.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>26</score><crdate>5/10/2007 10:27:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-10T22:27:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32601</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32601/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>182</score><crdate>8/21/2007 11:43:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-21T23:43:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83526</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/83526/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Wayward bird slams into  driver&#8217;s head ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wayward bird flew through the window, slamming into the side of the driver&#8217;s head.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>97</score><crdate>12/4/2008 2:38:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-04T02:38:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53395</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53395/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pro Golfer Charged With Killing Protected Bird With Golf Ball]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tripp Isenhour has been charged in Orlando with intentionally killing a protected bird with a golf shot.<br/><br/>He apparently was pissed off because it was squawking while they were trying to film a video segment.  So yea, he was totally justified.]]></description><comments>17</comments><score>530</score><crdate>3/6/2008 2:51:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-06T14:51:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25983</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25983/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant bird can't takeoff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas Tech University used computer programs originally designed for aircraft to analyze the probable flight characteristics of Argentavis magnificens, a giant bird that lived in South America 6 million years ago.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>60</score><crdate>7/2/2007 11:47:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-02T23:47:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59609</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59609/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Did eaten bird claw its way through hawk?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>311</score><crdate>4/25/2008 2:22:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T02:22:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81723</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81723/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Loyal little bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[The photographs you are about to see show how a very determined male bird tries to save his female mate that has been seriously injured.]]></description><comments>22</comments><score>735</score><crdate>11/12/2008 6:57:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-12T18:57:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54536</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54536/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New bird discovered in Indonesia]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small greenish bird that has been playing hide-and-seek with ornithologists on a remote Indonesian island since 1996 was declared a newly discovered species on Friday and promptly recommended for endangered lists. The new species is called the Togian white-eye, or Zosterops somadikartai.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>228</score><crdate>3/17/2008 12:34:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-17T00:34:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26966</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26966/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bird on Fire Blamed for 2 Acre Wildfire]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bird that caught fire after being electrocuted at a substation is suspected of igniting a 2 acre wildfire Monday.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>30</score><crdate>7/11/2007 10:49:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-11T10:49:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35910</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35910/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shorebird called a bar-tailed godwit, like the one pictured here, was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, the longest uninterrupted bird migration ever recorded, scientists say.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>156</score><crdate>9/17/2007 7:56:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-17T07:56:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47653</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47653/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Bird? Triple Cosmic Collision Of Galaxies Stuns Astronomers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies and a third irregular galaxy.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>225</score><crdate>1/18/2008 5:39:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-18T05:39:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46770</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46770/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Birds Explode After Eating Rice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turns out this is absolutely false. I always believed it. That's a shame, really; I was hoping to see a bird explode one day.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>324</score><crdate>1/10/2008 6:26:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-10T18:26:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31313</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31313/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Newspaper helps reunite boy with his bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 7-year-old Bethpage, N.Y., boy has been reunited with his pet finch three weeks after it disappeared.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>91</score><crdate>8/13/2007 12:37:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-13T00:37:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21155</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21155/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Boeing 757 + Bird = fire and serious fear]]></title><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">watch this takeoff</a> going bad when a bird was ingested by the engine of the plane]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>38</score><crdate>5/23/2007 11:06:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-23T11:06:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16780</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16780/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ U.S. OKs 1st bird flu vaccine for humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of course y'all probably forgot about the bird flu lately.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>72</score><crdate>4/17/2007 7:27:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-17T19:27:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1417</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/1417/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bird flu deaths up to 52]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indonesian man who had been suffering from bird flu for days has died, a hospital official said, taking Indonesia's death toll from the disease to 52.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/28/2006 1:38:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-28T01:38:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7629</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/7629/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Thousands of ducks dying in Idaho.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>125</score><crdate>12/14/2006 2:08:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-14T14:08:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14427</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14427/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sesame Street Bird Flu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looks like Big Bird is a gonner...]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>108</score><crdate>3/28/2007 9:12:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-28T21:12:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3321</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3321/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bird Flu Kills 150th Person; May Have Infected Victim's Brain ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bird flu may have infected an Indonesian woman's brain before it killed her yesterday, marking the 150th fatality caused by the virus worldwide since late 2003.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/16/2006 5:17:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-16T05:17:52+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>