Fossil of Bird That Chose Land Over Jurassic Skies Unearthed—Avian Evolution's 'Multiple Pathways' Come into Focus - BigGo Finance
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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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