Some new research — and cross-discipline studies — indicates that the evolution of dinosaurs to birds was not quite as abrupt as seemed to be the case when the theory was first raised. Not only are some of the connecting traits (e.g., feathers) present far further back than originally known, but some of the physiological changes turn out to be a lot less complex than they first appear to the naked eye. Coolness.
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds
Modern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible
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