Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution

[PHDNM]

Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution

A newly identified extinct bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China provides new information about avian development during the early evolution of flight.

Drs. Wang Min, Thomas Stidham, and Zhou Zhonghe from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported their study of the well-preserved complete skeleton and feathers of this early bird in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-chines...avian.html#jCp

[Iloko]

the mechanistics of how birds fly is interesting, it involves mechanics/aviation/ and geometric properties