Earth.com·3 min read·medium
AI tool helps explain how perching birds became so diverse
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Researchers used a new AI tool called Skelevision to analyze over 170,000 skeletal measurements from perching birds. The study reveals that bird body shapes evolved in sudden bursts linked to historical climate upheaval.
Perching birds evolved their body shapes in rare, sudden bursts that lined up with moments of upheaval in Earth’s climate. A new study reconstructs about 50 million years of change in their skeletons. Most of that change was packed into a handful of brief episodes, not spread evenly across time.
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