Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, a discovery that rewrites the history of avian evolution.
Jurassic fossil rewrites what we thought we knew about bird evolution
“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more diversified than previously thought,” said paleontologist and study co-author Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in China.
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