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Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution
The transformation of the bird skull from an ancestral akinetic, heavy, and toothed dinosaurian morphology to a highly derived, lightweight, edentulous, and kinetic skull is an innovation as significant as powered flight and feathers. Our understanding of evolutionary assembly of the modern form and...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34162868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24147-z |