China Focus: Chinese-American research team reveals new details about world's "original bird"

NAMPA / Xinhua
2025-05-15
BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A new study led by researchers from China and the United States has unveiled a well-preserved specimen of Archaeopteryx -- widely accepted as the most primitive bird. The study discovered new details about the bones, soft tissues and feathers of the species. The findings, published in Nature on Wednesday, provide crucial evidence of the skull evolution and flight adaptations the species underwent during its transiti......
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