150-Million-Year-Old Flightless Bird Fossil Challenges Theories of Bird Evolution
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An exceptional fossil discovered in China changes our knowledge of the evolution of the flight in dinosaurs. The study of this small predator suggests that the ancestors of birds and some of their close cousins would have developed their air skills through distinct evolutionary pathways. ...
150-Million-Year-Old flightless bird fossil challenges theories of bird evolution
For millions of years, birds have evolved in surprising ways. Now, a remarkable fossil discovery in China is challenging what scientists thought they knew about early birds and flight.Life reconstruction of the Late Jurassic bird Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis. Credit: Min Wang.A new study published in Nature discusses the recent discovery of Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, a 150-million-year-old fossil from Fujian Province, China, that challenges long-he…
A team of the Institute of Paleontology of Vertebrados and Paleoanthropology described the Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, 821 grams bird that lived between 150 million and 148 million years ago. Comparison with 377 species of birds today indicates that it lived on the ground and did not fly.
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