early moulting strategy (IMAGE)

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early moulting strategy

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Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate the feather sheaths. Scale bar is 1 cm.

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Kaye et al. 2020

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