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Spectacular Fossil Shows a 120-Million-Year-Old Bird With a Highly Impractical Tail
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| 17 September 2021
| CARLY CASSELLA
Posted on 09/17/2021 12:25:28 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Kevmo
Yup. Long tails come in handy for gliding down from trees. I used to have silver pheasants that would do small upwards flights and get pretty high in the trees. They’d glide down gracefully in the morning.
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posted on
09/17/2021 2:03:54 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: CivilWarBrewing
Are roadrunners able to turn door handles like velociraptors could?
To: Red Badger
Are they sure that’s a tail?
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posted on
09/17/2021 2:31:31 PM PDT
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: Covenantor
As a former journalist and a former field biologist, I noticed that too.
This article is puerile pabulum.
Say that three times fast.
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posted on
09/17/2021 2:57:35 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Verginius Rufus
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posted on
09/17/2021 3:15:16 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: gundog
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posted on
09/17/2021 3:17:49 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
To: 4Liberty
Yeah. Good balancing structure for a critter with two legs.
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posted on
09/17/2021 3:31:37 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: BradyLS
NBC’s peacock before they switched to color.Yep.
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posted on
09/17/2021 8:28:03 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks Red Badger.
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09/18/2021 9:46:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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