Word: birding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BIRD WATCHING IS MUY MACHO...
THOMAS FIORE enhanced the image of bird watchers throughout the world last week by walking away from the Colombian guerrillas who had held him and three companions captive in the jungle for 10 days. Fiore, who lives in New York City, said he hiked eight hours till he stumbled across a local TV crew doing a story on the abductions. Both the Colombian government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were nonplussed: the former claimed Fiore had been released to deliver a message to Washington; the latter declared Fiore was freed as a "sign of goodwill" after...
...there any law that prevents me declaring Pelican Island a National Bird Sanctuary?" T.R. asked, not waiting long for an answer. "Very well, then," reaching for his pen, "I do declare...
...Pietraroia limestone beds near Naples, Italy, are celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part...
...named Scipionyx samniticus may end up telling paleontologists more about the anatomy of theropods--a group of two-legged dinosaurs--than they could ever learn from bones alone. The group, which includes Tyrannosaurus rex as well as velociraptors, is considered by many to comprise the direct ancestors of modern birds. Having the internal organs in hand could help support--or torpedo--that connection. Already, in fact, some scientists are suggesting that the position of the liver indicates an internal structure more like a lizard's than a bird's, undercutting the dinosaur-bird link. Its breastbone, on the other hand...