early birds
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Fossil Reveals ‘Wonderchicken,’ The Earliest Known Modern Bird
A fantastic fossil found in Belgium is offering new insights into the ancient birds that gave rise to the ones still around today.
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Birds Wasted No Time Taking Over The World Once The Dinosaurs Croaked
The fossilised remains of a tiny bird that lived 62 million years ago suggests that birds burst out of the evolutionary gates once their dinosaur cousins were gone, rapidly diversifying into most of the lineages we see today.