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New research reveals that during the Late Jurassic period—when feathered dinosaurs were first taking to the skies—some early birds chose a different path, surviving on the ground. The discovery is being hailed as key evidence that the dinosaur-to-bird evolutionary transition was not a single linear pathway but branched into multiple directions depending on habitat. A research team led by Professor Wang Min of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced in the international journal Nature that a 149-million-year-old fossil excavated in China's Fujian Province has been confirmed as a new ground-dwelling bird species. The team assigned the primitive bird the scientific name Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis.

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The history of life on Earth doesn’t start with the Cambrian Explosion. However, this was the point in time that nearly all major animal groups appeared, proliferated, and diversified. It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely