Chinese Scientists Discover Oldest Bird Fossils, Rewrite History of Avian Evolution

 

According to a truly field-altering fossilized bird found in China, birds already existed in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. The new discovery suggests that rather than a linear evolutionary path from dinosaur to bird, these two orders evolved somewhat simultaneously. Baminornis zhenghensis is the world’s oldest species of avid. A holotype […]

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