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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."
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"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad."
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"Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds."
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"When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks."
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"I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest."
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"Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado."
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"As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator."
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"Feathers predate birds."
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"Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod."
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"The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me."
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"Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones."
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"Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum."
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"Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases."
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