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Biologist stunned by unusual materials found packed inside bird nest: 'The oldest layer is as old as me'
"The oldest layer is as old as me — all my life, a bird was nesting here," said Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a biologist at the ...
ZME Science on MSN15d
Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic ...
New Scientist19d
Birds' nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 30 years ago
Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...
IFLScience on MSN7d
US Sees First Outbreak Of H7N9 Bird Flu Since 2017
W hile the United States continues to deal with a significant outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu, officials have now reported the ...