<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>New fossil bird found : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/"/><tagline>New fossil bird found : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-09-06T21:38:49+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[New fossil bird found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60613/1/" /><id>60613</id><summary><![CDATA[New fossil bird found]]></summary><issued>2008-05-05T02:25:49+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-05T02:25:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What Bird is That?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57416/1/" /><id>57416</id><summary><![CDATA[What Bird is That?]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T13:26:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T13:26:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[See a bird and have no clue what it is?  This website is a fantastic search engine for wild birds and guides you through choosing its shape, colour, habitat and call and helps you identify the bird!<br/><br/>I find this site super useful and always refer to it when I venture out of my province.<br/><br/>&quot;That Bird is a Liar!&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Giant bird can't takeoff]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25983/1/" /><id>25983</id><summary><![CDATA[Giant bird can't takeoff]]></summary><issued>2007-07-02T23:47:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-02T23:47:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bird Flu Thwarts Jet Flight For Vulture]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19805/1/" /><id>19805</id><summary><![CDATA[Bird Flu Thwarts Jet Flight For Vulture]]></summary><issued>2007-05-10T22:27:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-10T22:27:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New &quot;Mini&quot; Dinosaur a Step in Bird Evolution Path]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/35177/1/" /><id>35177</id><summary><![CDATA[New &quot;Mini&quot; Dinosaur a Step in Bird Evolution Path]]></summary><issued>2007-09-10T09:44:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-10T09:44:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An 80-million-year-old fossil recently uncovered in the Gobi desert could be a key piece of the evolutionary puzzle of how massive dinosaurs gave rise to today's comparatively tiny birds. The newfound species, dubbed Mahakala omnogovae, measures just 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) from its head to the tip of its feathered tail.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35910/1/" /><id>35910</id><summary><![CDATA[Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured]]></summary><issued>2007-09-17T07:56:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-17T07:56:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/31365/1/" /><id>31365</id><summary><![CDATA[Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago]]></summary><issued>2007-08-13T09:11:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-13T09:11:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Did eaten bird claw its way through hawk?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/59609/1/" /><id>59609</id><summary><![CDATA[Did eaten bird claw its way through hawk?]]></summary><issued>2008-04-25T02:22:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-25T02:22:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[OSU scientists discover oldest known gecko fossil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/74741/1/" /><id>74741</id><summary><![CDATA[OSU scientists discover oldest known gecko fossil]]></summary><issued>2008-09-03T22:08:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-03T22:08:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oldest Primate Fossil in N. America Discovered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/53020/1/" /><id>53020</id><summary><![CDATA[Oldest Primate Fossil in N. America Discovered]]></summary><issued>2008-03-04T10:32:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-04T10:32:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A newly found species small enough to fit in the palm of a hand is North America's oldest known primate, according to a new study. The fossil is 55 million years old.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New bird discovered in Indonesia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54536/1/" /><id>54536</id><summary><![CDATA[New bird discovered in Indonesia]]></summary><issued>2008-03-17T00:34:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-17T00:34:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Bird? Triple Cosmic Collision Of Galaxies Stuns Astronomers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47653/1/" /><id>47653</id><summary><![CDATA[Cosmic Bird? Triple Cosmic Collision Of Galaxies Stuns Astronomers]]></summary><issued>2008-01-18T05:39:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-18T05:39:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bird on Fire Blamed for 2 Acre Wildfire]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26966/1/" /><id>26966</id><summary><![CDATA[Bird on Fire Blamed for 2 Acre Wildfire]]></summary><issued>2007-07-11T10:49:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-11T10:49:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A bird that caught fire after being electrocuted at a substation is suspected of igniting a 2 acre wildfire Monday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32601/1/" /><id>32601</id><summary><![CDATA[ Bird grilled, but lives to tell tale]]></summary><issued>2007-08-21T23:43:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-21T23:43:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pro Golfer Charged With Killing Protected Bird With Golf Ball]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53395/1/" /><id>53395</id><summary><![CDATA[Pro Golfer Charged With Killing Protected Bird With Golf Ball]]></summary><issued>2008-03-06T14:51:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-06T14:51:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-year-old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55627/1/" /><id>55627</id><summary><![CDATA[Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-year-old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T08:15:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T08:15:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The fossil evidence in hand, found in west-central India, predates the oldest previously known rabbits by several million years and extends the record of the whole category of the animal on the Indian subcontinent by 35 million years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Meet Woody, the bird with a massive pecker that's triple the normal size]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57673/1/" /><id>57673</id><summary><![CDATA[Meet Woody, the bird with a massive pecker that's triple the normal size]]></summary><issued>2008-04-10T01:55:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-10T01:55:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Without its beak, a woodpecker would be up a gumtree. But as the well-endowed fellow shows, it's possible to have too much of a good thing. The great spotted male, a regular visitor to a garden in North Yorkshire, has a bill more than twice the normal size.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oldest mother fish fossil found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63560/1/" /><id>63560</id><summary><![CDATA[Oldest mother fish fossil found]]></summary><issued>2008-05-29T02:28:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-29T02:28:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australian scientists have found a remarkable 380 million year old fossil placoderm fish with intact embryo and mineralised umbilical cord. Video included.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Arctic Bird found in...Florida!!!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57440/1/" /><id>57440</id><summary><![CDATA[Arctic Bird found in...Florida!!!]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T18:44:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T18:44:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Unfortunately, it didn't bring any sunscreen and disliked the local food.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Birds Explode After Eating Rice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46770/1/" /><id>46770</id><summary><![CDATA[Birds Explode After Eating Rice]]></summary><issued>2008-01-10T18:26:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-10T18:26:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rare Dodo Skeleton Found]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26048/1/" /><id>26048</id><summary><![CDATA[Rare Dodo Skeleton Found]]></summary><issued>2007-07-03T14:37:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-03T14:37:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientist have found a skeleton of the long extinct Dodo bird, complete with DNA.]]></content></entry></feed>