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New Specimens of Yanornis Indicate a Piscivorous Diet and Modern Alimentary Canal
A crop adapted for an herbivorous diet of seeds has previously been documented in the Early Cretaceous birds Sapeornis and Hongshanornis. Here we report on several specimens of Yanornis that preserve a crop containing fish. One specimen preserves two whole fish in the oesophagus, indicating that Ear...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986254/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24733485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095036 |