They call it a disorder, but shouldn't Darwinists be celebrating this as "survival of the fittest"?
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Researchers link virus to birds with deformed beaks AP, ANCHORAGE, Alaska The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska's largest city with freakishly long beaks. Some beaks looked like sprung scissors, unable to come together at the tips. Others curved up or down like crossed sickles. Bird beaks have inner layers of bone covered by an outer layer of keratin, the same stuff as fingernails. The disorder affects the outer layer, stimulating the keratin to grow twice as fast as normal. "They can't eat enough during the daylight hours to survive overnight, because they're metabolizing the fat they put on during the day. The other thing is that the poor little guys can't preen their feathers very well. You can imagine trying to comb your hair with a pair of three-foot-long [1m] chopsticks." They end up with dirty, matted plumage and feathers that no longer provide insulation. "They've lost their little down coats for winter," Handel said. Some do not survive. The birds had RNA of a virus in the same family that causes the common cold and polio in humans and foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. The previously unknown virus was in every sample of deformed chickadee beaks and in two samples of chickadees that did not have distorted beaks. "Now, with this genetic test, we have a way to see: Do those birds have the same virus or not?” |
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