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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 4:07 p.m. PST

""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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gavandjosh0212 May 2024 6:23 p.m. PST

neat

Andrew Walters13 May 2024 7:28 a.m. PST

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.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP13 May 2024 2:42 p.m. PST

Thanks

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rvandusen Supporting Member of TMP18 May 2024 1:21 a.m. PST

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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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP18 May 2024 3:03 p.m. PST

Thanks also…


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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP05 Aug 2024 4:02 p.m. PST

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP09 Oct 2024 9:32 p.m. PST

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP29 Oct 2024 9:30 p.m. PST

Archaeopteryx: the winged link between dinosaurs and birds

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP16 Nov 2024 4:10 p.m. PST

Paleontologists Discover Massive Dinosaur Tracks in China, Hinting at One of the Largest Known Raptors

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