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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
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Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
which made it difficult to confirm any claims of it being an early modern bird. In 2011, another Antarctic expedition ...
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Earliest Bird Discovery May Settle Long-Running Mystery
The discovery of a remarkably near-complete fossil skull of the earliest known modern bird may help settle a ... at which time it was argued to be an early member of the modern birds—but more ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...