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Swallows may have evolved quicker take-off ability in only 30 years
Shorter wings help LINCOLN, Nebraska––Cliff swallows nesting under highway overpasses in southwestern Nebraska appear to have evolved shorter wings in only 30 years to help them avoid colliding with cars, ornithologists Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown reported in the March 18, 2013 edition of Current Biology. The hypothesized adaptation might also help […]
Roadkill counts, 1937-2006, showed longterm decline
City worker logged 5,000 roadkills over 12.5 years MENTOR, Ohio––Cathy Strah, a transportation department employee in Mentor, Ohio, from 1993 to mid-2006 logged all roadkills collected by city workers, forwarding her data sheets to me. Her work, covering more than 5,000 animal deaths over twelve and a half years, was the longest-running all-species, year-round roadkill […]