New study conducted by chris cooney at the university of sheffield and colleages of the natural history museum. They gathered up a sufficient number of specimens, or pictures of them. Used machine lending algorithms to extract the pica color from hundreds of points on the plumage.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty—but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, once widespread, is swiftly vanishing. And an old hypothesis confirmed: birds get more colourful the closer they live to the equator.
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