Bird with Flashy Tail Was 1st of its Kind on Ancient Supercontinent
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
About 115 million years ago, a teenage bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers flew around the trees of the supercontinent Gondwana, until it perished and fossilized in what is now northeastern Brazil, a new study finds.