"210-Million-Year-Old Bird-Like Footprints Found in Lesotho" Topic

""Birds are one of the most diverse groups of animals on Earth with around 10,000 living species, yet their early evolutionary history is still shrouded in mystery," said University of Cape Town paleontologists Miengah Abrahams and Emese Bordy.

"The dinosaurian origin of modern birds unequivocally points to Maniraptora, a group of theropod dinosaurs, but the timing of the origin of birds is contested."…"

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Armand

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I look forward to hearing more about this. That makes birds a *lot* older based on just four pieces of rock. That makes birds older than the things they are supposed to be descended from. We really need more evidence. A lot of cladograms are going to need revising.

Maybe aliens with bird feet landed, looked around, then left. That would explain this without having to redraw the family tree. That's unlikely, though, because it assumes they didn't wear boots while exploring an alien world.

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Armand

210 million years ago is still in the Triassic. The pints may be from something like coelophysis or megnapnosaurus or another small early theropod that are the ancestors of birds.

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Armand