These two items popped up in my Google Reader at the same time. I present them without comment (and, again, without bird puns, which takes more willpower than you know).

New findings challenge long-held assumptions about flightless bird evolution

Five of the Largest Birds in History

Also, the Large Hadron Collider will be doing all sorts of quantum magic in less than a week. Check out the _floss on 10th, when I explain how the LHC’s handlers plan to keep it from destroying the universe.