Reconstruction of a 125 Million-Year-Old Bird (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Reconstruction of a 125 Million-Year-Old Bird

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Some of the most ancient birds were capable of performing aerodynamic feats in a manner similar to many living birds, according to a new study of the fossil wing of a 125-million-year-old bird, led by Guillermo Navalón, a Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol, UK, together with a team of Spanish palaeontologists and Dr. Luis M. Chiappe of the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County. This image shows how the bird might have looked, based on current evidence.

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Credit: Stephanie Abramowicz, scientific illustrator at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County

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Image is for single use only to illustrate stories on the study 'Soft-tissue and dermal arrangement in the wing of an Early Cretaceous bird: Implications for the evolution of avian flight' by Navalón et al in Scientific Reports, and must not be archived.

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