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New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails - Sci.News
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Enrico de Lazaro
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Paleontologists in China have discovered a new Jurassic bird species that provides insight into the evolutionary transition from long, dinosaur-like tails to the compact tails seen in modern birds. This finding helps clarify the anatomical changes that occurred during the early evolution of avian flight.
Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded their long, dinosaur-like tails for the compac…
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