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Bird Like Tracks 60 MYA Before Birds?


DPS Ammonite

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What came first: birds or bird like tracks? @Auspex Birdlike tracks predate birds by 50 million years.
 

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-bird-like-footprints-in-africa-predate-the-existence-of-birds

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293021

 

Abrahams M, Bordy EM (2023) The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293021. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0293021

 

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