Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Citizen scientists needed to map 3D scans to solve puzzle of bird bill evolution

The University of Sheffield is attempting to scan every species of bird to build the most comprehensive data set of bird bills ever attempted. That's 10,000 species! They've launched a website (www.markmybird.org) where citizen scientists can help with that task by looking at the images and identifying features that are common to each species.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-09-citizen-scientists-3d-scans-puzzle.html


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