[Rockhounds] 46,000-year-old bird found frozen in Siberia

[Doug Bank]

The point still stands. If you are criticizing an article based solely on it’s title, isn’t that the same as judging a book by it’s cover? Isn’t that something that intellectuals like ourselves (!!) should strive NOT to do? 

The point of the article is not that they discovered a 46,000 year old bird. It is much more than that. It is about ecosystems and sample collecting methods and DNA extractions, etc. It is NOT just the fact that the Horned Lark existed 46,000 years ago. 

Doug


> On Feb 24, 2020, at 7:48 AM, Axel Emmermann <axel.emmermann at telenet.be> wrote:
> 
> Yes, Gary, but 46.000 is only just before Neandertals roamed the nightclubs.
> That species may even still fly if the contemporary cats didn't get it...
> 
> Axel 
> 
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> brown
> Verzonden: maandag 24 februari 2020 10:58
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] 46,000-year-old bird found frozen in Siberia
> 
> Did you even read the article?  They even got DNA out of the bird.  
> 
> gcb
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> From: Rockhounds <rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com> On Behalf Of
> Dora Smith
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> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] 46,000-year-old bird found frozen in Siberia
> 
> Not quite understanding the excitement.   Who is startled at finding out
> there were birds 46,000 years ago?
> 
> Dora
> 
> On 2/23/20 2:46 PM, Paul wrote:
>> 46,000-year-old bird found frozen in
>> Siberia sheds light on the end of the ice age By Marisa Lati, The 
>> Washington Post 
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/22/46000-year-old-bird-
>> found-frozen-siberia-sheds-lightend-ice-age/
>> 
>> 
>> Dussex, N., Stanton, D.W.G., Sigeman, H. et al. Biomolecular  analyses 
>> reveal the age, sex and species identity of a near-intact Pleistocene 
>> bird carcass. Commun Biol 3, 84 (2020).
>> https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0806-7
>> https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-0806-7