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Fossil Bird Brains And The Secrets Of Flight


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Yuppers! The complexities of flight require real-time processing of vast amounts of information, compounded by the fact that inherent instability is requisite for aerial agility. It's not all visual, either, since birds can "feel" the air pressure changes on every feather, all the time!

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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Yuppers! The complexities of flight require real-time processing of vast amounts of information, compounded by the fact that inherent instability is requisite for aerial agility. It's not all visual, either, since birds can "feel" the air pressure changes on every feather, all the time!

hmmm...birds sound almost cat-like. i trained tc to ride a little bicycle backwards at 25 kilometers per hour. hardest part was getting him to pedal in metric.

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Three-dimensional X-ray scanning equipment is being used to help chart the evolution of flight in birds, by digitally reconstructing the size of bird brains using ancient fossils and modern bird skulls.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110103110154.htm

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Erosion... will be my epitaph!

http://www.paleonature.org/

https://fossilnews.org/

 

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