History on the wing: how evolution in birds is a window into the past
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By David Thill Medill Reports Take a look, if you will, at the birds pictured here. With their yellow throats and yellow breasts, their mottled feathers and the black streaks lining their wings like racing stripes – tiny cotton balls where their eyes once sat – they look like birds of a feather. But they’re […]