Bird skull evolution slowed after the extinction of the dinosaurs
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
From emus to woodpeckers, modern birds show remarkable diversity in skull shape and size, often hypothesized to be the result of a sudden hastening of evolution following the mass extinction that killed their non-avian dinosaur cousins at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. But this is not the case according to a new study.