Mummified ancient bird offers clues about flight during mid-cretaceous

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 05:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from China, Canada and the U.S. has found an example of mummified remains of a bird from the mid-cretaceous period, in amber. As they note in their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the remains represent the first example of skeletal material alongside feathers in Mesozoic amber.

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