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This 150-Million-Year-Old Bird Had a Body Built for the Land
Nautilus · By David Nield ·
The Brief
- A 150-million-year-old bird fossil is reported to have had a body built for life on land.
- The find indicates that flight may have evolved multiple times, according to the source.
Why it matters
The fossil bears on how early birds moved and how flight evolved, a question paleontologists debate; the source gives few details beyond the headline claim.
Who’s affected
- paleontologists and evolutionary biologists
- readers interested in bird evolution
- #paleontology
- #bird evolution
- #flight evolution
- #fossils
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This 150-Million-Year-Old Bird Had a Body Built for the Land