Current Events > Modern bird characteristics have been evolving before K-T extinction event

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63809867

Fragments of a skeleton fossil have helped overturn a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds, researchers have said.
Findings published in Nature show the mobile beak, which characterises 99% of modern birds, evolved before the extinction of all large dinosaurs.
The paper is based on a fossil dating from 66.7 million years ago.
Cambridge University researchers said it suggests how the modern bird skull came to be needs to be re-evaluated.

tl;dr Polly might've been hanging out with Littlefoot.

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np i also love birds

shipping avies with scalies rn