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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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Autores principales: Wang, Min, Stidham, Thomas A., Li, Zhiheng, Xu, Xing, Zhou, Zhonghe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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