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New Bird With Fancy Tail Feathers Found!


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"About 115 million years ago, a teenage bird with spotted, ribbonlike tail feathers flew around the trees of the supercontinent Gondwana, until it perished and fossilized in what is now northeastern Brazil, a new study finds"

Live Science article, HERE.

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This article was published in Nature today. Very exciting for us paleo-ornithophiles!

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150526/ncomms8141/full/ncomms8141.html

Very well preserved tail feathers.

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This is a major find! It's really tiny, really old, and sports highly derived features.

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>May your wonders never cease!

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