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From my brother. Might be interesting to watch and use if you tour the bird hall and use the owl wing. Sue U ==== This short video clip is amazing and breath-taking, especially if you watch it on full screen! The markings, the wing span, claws and aggressiveness, all showing in one action! This video shows an Eagle Owl attacking the camera that's doing the recording. The slow-motion photography was shot at a film speed of 1000 fps. Eagle Owls are native to Eurasia and are closely related to our own Great Horned Owl (the one with the 'ears'). For flyers & bird watchers, this video is also an interesting study of the owl's wing aerodynamics in very slow motion. Too bad the film stopped short of the actual attack on the camera..... To any prey, those outstretched claws must be a very daunting image in its last few seconds of life!! http://www.petapixel.com/2011/08/09

This story was sent to you by: cdmilam@hotmail.com -------------------- Prehistoric feathers found frozen in amber -------------------- The array of structures — both primitive and complex — reveal what the  precursors of modern feathers really looked like, scientists say. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times September 16 2011, 6:15 PM PDT A trove of prehistoric feathers both primitive and complex is providing  scientists with a snapshot of the diversity of down-covered dinosaurs  and birds during the late Cretaceous. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-dinosaur-feathers-20110917,0,7873604.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

Email From Ann Cantrell Sent: Sat, Sep 17, 2011 1:09 pm Subject: Hear This! Blue Whale Song Recorded Above Water - Belmont Shore-Naples, CA Patch Click on link below to open article and video: http://belmontshore.patch.com/articles/blue-whale-song-recorded-above-water-a-first

This story was sent to you by: Chuck -------------------- Wind tunnel helps show how birds fly so far without water -------------------- Canadian scientists, using a state-of-the art device, discover that  long-distance migrators burn muscle and organs instead of fat. By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times September 9 2011, 4:42 PM PDT Twice a year, bar-tailed godwits migrate more than 7,000 miles so  they can spend their summers in Alaska and their winters in New Zealand.    Bar-headed geese fly about 2,000 miles between Mongolia and India,  traveling at altitudes high enough to clear the top of Mt. Everest. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-migrating-birds-muscle-20110910,0,1539627.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

This story was sent to you by: Chuck -------------------- Hominid fossils may shake up the human family tree -------------------- Anthropologists say two Australopithecus sediba specimens have a curious  mix of primitive and modern features that could indicate the species was  a direct ancestor of modern humans. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times September 8 2011, 4:26 PM PDT After examining the fossils of two hominids that lived nearly 2 million  years ago, anthropologists said that the anatomical features of the adult  female and young male strongly suggest they could be members of a species  that was a direct ancestor of modern humans. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-australopithecus-fossils-20110909,0,7812788.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

San Gabriel Mission and Jonathan Heritage Foundation Invite You To San Gabriel Mission’s History Forum Saturday, October 1, 2011    10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dr. James A. Sandos Farquhar Professor of the Southwest, University of Redlands Patricia Sandos, Independent Scholar “Spanish Music in California’s Missions: Little known, Unexpected and Unforgettable” One of the most respected mission historians, Dr. Sandos and his wife Patricia have researched the lives of mission instrumentalists and found that participation in musical performance had powerful social impacts upon Indian community development beyond the conventional consideration of historians and musicologists. They will examine the impact of Spanish ritual music in the missions and will feature audio examples of both tribal and liturgical song. Dr. Kristine Ashton Gunnell Claremont Graduate University “Modernizing the Mission: The Daughters of Charity and     Sisters’ Hospital, Los Angeles, 1880-1920” Using Sisters’

This story was sent to you by: Chuck -------------------- New species of ancient rhinoceros found in Tibet -------------------- Paleontologists dig out a fossil that dates to about a million years before other known woolly rhinos. The find casts new light on the evolutionary importance of the Tibetan highlands before the ice age. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times September 2 2011, 7:17 PM PDT Searching across the Tibetan plateau, paleontologists have discovered a species of woolly rhinoceros that may be an ancestor of the great ice age beasts that roamed the plains of North America, Europe and Asia. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-woolly-rhino-20110903,0,175984.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

This story was sent to you by: Chuck -------------------- Humans got immunity boost from Neanderthals, study finds -------------------- Neanderthals, as well as hominids known as Denisovans, contributed key types of immune genes still found in human populations, scientists say. By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times August 25 2011, 5:13 PM PDT As recently as 2008, scientists thought that Neanderthals and modern humans had never mated. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-neanderthal-immune-genes-20110826,0,377237.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com

This story was sent to you by: Chuck -------------------- Most Earth meteorites linked to single asteroid -------------------- Dust grains gathered by a Japanese spacecraft from the asteroid Itokawa contain the primitive elements that formed the early solar system, studies find. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times August 26 2011 The first dust samples ever retrieved from an asteroid and brought back for study show that a portion of the most common meteorites to hit Earth may have come from a single rocky ancestor in space, Japanese researchers say. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-asteroid-meteorites-20110826,0,4632492.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com