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Analysis of Fossilized Antarctic Bird’s ‘Voice Box’ Suggests Dinosaurs Couldn’t Sing

By Cheryl Dybas|NSF, Peter West | NSF on Oct 27, 2016 Featured, Science/Education

The oldest-known vocal organ of a bird has been found in an Antarctic fossil that is related to ducks and geese and lived during the age of the dinosaurs, more than 66 million years ago. The discovery of the Mesozoic Era vocal organ — called a syrinx — and its apparent absence in non-avian dinosaur […]

Scientists Confirm that Midwest floods are More Frequent

By Cheryl Dybas|NSF, Gary Galluzzo|University of Iowa on Feb 13, 2015 National

The U.S. Midwest region and surrounding states have endured increasingly more frequent floods during the last half-century, according to results of a new study. The researchers, affiliated with the University of Iowa (UI) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), based their findings on daily records collected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 774 […]