You see, on top of that broken tree branch actually stands a completely still bird, the common potoo. It’s hiding in plain sight and will stay that way even if predators are deathly close to them.

By drawing on information from nearly 200 fossils, we were able to constrain the ages of some of the branches in the bird family tree. Our study shows all living birds share an ancestor that lived ...

A genetic analysis supports some odd groupings in the bird tree of ... E.D. Jarvis et al. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science. Vol. 346 ...

The research is part of the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) Consortium, which aims to sequence the genomes of every single species of bird.The study was led by Zhang together with Assistant Professor ...