Although no bigger than chickens, a pair of 50-million-year-old fossil birds turn out to be some of the earliest known ancestors of today’s giant, flightless birds, like the ostrich and the emu.
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‘Unusual’ Fossil Egg Reveals Evolutionary Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds
Millions of years after the reptilian animals we know as dinosaurs disappeared, some of their traits persisted in surprising ways among their descendants — birds — a new fossil shows….
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Extinct Tropical Bird Discovered in Wyoming
Providing yet another reminder of how much the land — and the life on it — changes over time, scientists say they’ve found, on the arid plateaus of southwestern Wyoming,…
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Tiny Fossil Discovered in Wyoming Reveals Great-Granddaddy of Hummingbirds
A petite and exquisitely preserved 50-million-year old fossil reveals the remains of a lustrous black bird that was the precursor to today’s hummingbirds, researchers say. The fossil bird, originally excavated…
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