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Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from Jehol Biota
The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...
earth3 天
Bird evolution timeline pushed back at least 20 million years by new discovery
Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...
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Jurassic fossil discovery in east China sheds new light on origin of birds
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, and this suggests that birds ...
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The discovery of this fossil rewrites the history of the origin of birds 🦅
The discovery of a 6-inch (15 cm) fossil of a small bird, 150 million years old, reveals unexpected modern anatomical ...
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中国发现全球最古老鸟类「政和八闽鸟」，将鸟类起源时间提早近 ...
谢邀。 非常有意义的发现！ 要深入了解这个发现的重大意义，需要先了解鸟类的演化过程。 大多数人往往只知道鸟类是恐龙的一支，再详细点可能了解始祖鸟，再细化就不知道。 但恐怕很多人不知道，始祖鸟几乎要被开除鸟籍了。即便不开除鸟籍，也不是最早的鸟类。 这是始祖鸟： 这是今天的鸟类： 始祖鸟和今天的鸟类，一眼看过去的最大区别是什么？ 是尾巴！