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Showing posts with label Two Tailed Bird. Show all posts
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Friday, 11 October 2013

Two-Tailed Ancient Dinosaur-Era Bird Uncovered

120-million-year-old bird sported not one, but two tails, paleontologists found. The discovery indicates to a complicated evolutionary path in the tails of birds we see today, National Geographic reported. The second-oldest known bird, Jeholornis, lived in what is today China along with other feathered prehistoric animals. Fossils show the Jeholornis was the size of a turkey, had claws on its winged forelimbs with three small teeth in its lower...