New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails
Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded their long, dinosaur-like tails for the compact tailbone that helps living birds fly. The post New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
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M. Wang, J. Tang, and K. Deng, L. Dong, L. Xu, X. Xu, M. Lin, H. Du, G. Lin, R. Chen, C. Zhang, Z. Zhou. 2026. Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds. Science Advances 12(27):eaeb5202:1-11
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeb5202 ↗