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.
Birds-of-paradise are known for their bright colours and courtship displays. Now, it turns out that many species also have ...
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10 Birds With Incredibly Long Tails and What They Use Them ForTail feathers grow from the bird’s tail or structures that are part of the tail. So finding birds who actually ...
Columnist Bill Danielson explores the challenge of identifying individual birds and the rare moments that make one stand out ...
Fish, birds, most reptiles ... Yet, as you get closer to humans on the evolutionary tree, tails disappear. Gorillas don't have them. And neither do chimps or any other ape — including us ...
By contrast, most aquatic vertebrates have a lateral line that is streamlined near the animal’s tail and only becomes complex near their head. This would help them both bury themselves to avoid ...
The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.
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