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Based on the speed of color evolution seen in hummingbirds, we calculated it would take 6 (million to) 10 million years for this drastic pink-gold color shift to evolve in a single species. – Field Museum senior research scientist	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We thought it would be genetically distinct, but it matched Heliodoxa branickii in some markers, one of the pink-throated hummingbirds from that general area of Peru. – John Bates	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We included seals, whales, elephants, mice, hummingbirds. We have dinosaurs of different sizes, extinct marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. We have animals that weigh several tons, and animals that are just a few grams. The spread is very big. – Matteo Fabbri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When cities grow, we're removing forests, we're removing the vegetation that hummingbirds use to feed, to reproduce. – Claudia Rodriguez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If hummingbirds disappear, the diversity of plants decreases and in the long term the ecosystem will end up poorer. – Claudia Rodriguez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
John Hudson, who added that hed traveled to the country to snap pictures of birds using John Hudson DSLR Canon 5D Mark IV, said John Hudson got very lucky and was amazed at what hed been able to photograph. The extraordinary snaps are almost never seen with the naked eye because bats feed at night and are notoriously difficult to spot. ( Credit : SWNS) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ive been a keen photographer since I was 14 and I have a particular interest in things like hummingbirds. – John Hudson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see. – Chad Eliason	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

Based on the speed of color evolution seen in hummingbirds, we calculated it would take 6 (million to) 10 million years for this drastic pink-gold color shift to evolve in a single species.

– Field Museum senior research scientist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We thought it would be genetically distinct, but it matched Heliodoxa branickii in some markers, one of the pink-throated hummingbirds from that general area of Peru.

– John Bates

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We included seals, whales, elephants, mice, hummingbirds. We have dinosaurs of different sizes, extinct marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. We have animals that weigh several tons, and animals that are just a few grams. The spread is very big.

– Matteo Fabbri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When cities grow, we're removing forests, we're removing the vegetation that hummingbirds use to feed, to reproduce.

– Claudia Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If hummingbirds disappear, the diversity of plants decreases and in the long term the ecosystem will end up poorer.

– Claudia Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

John Hudson, who added that hed traveled to the country to snap pictures of birds using John Hudson DSLR Canon 5D Mark IV, said John Hudson got very lucky and was amazed at what hed been able to photograph. The extraordinary snaps are almost never seen with the naked eye because bats feed at night and are notoriously difficult to spot. ( Credit : SWNS) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ive been a keen photographer since I was 14 and I have a particular interest in things like hummingbirds.

– John Hudson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see.

– Chad Eliason

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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