Saturday, February 6, 2010

Oldest Known Bird Ancestor, Reconstructed (Even Color!)...

Scientists from Yale have reconstructed what Anchiomis huxleyi must have looked like (at right, click to enlarge).  A. huxleyi lived in what is today China some 160 million years ago, and is the oldest known feathered dinosaur (and presumed ancestor of today's birds)...

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