South China Morning Post·3 min read·hard
Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step
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Victoria Bela
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Researchers in China have discovered a 150-million-year-old fossil, Zhengheornis buyu, which provides evidence that birds evolved their short, fused tails through a gradual process. This finding challenges previous theories that the transition from long dinosaur tails to modern bird tails happened suddenly.
A fossil found in China suggests modern birds shed the long, bony tails of their dinosaur ancestors through a step-by-step process, rather than a sudden evolutionary transition as previously believed.
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