A new study published in the journal Science highlights the dramatic evolutionary transformation of carnivorous, ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs into flying birds. The dinosaur lineage that evolved into birds shrank in body size continuously for 50 million years. Image credit: Michael S. Y. Lee et al. Science, 10.1126/science.1252243. “Birds out-shrank and out-evolved their dinosaurian ancestors, surviving where their larger, less evolvable relatives...
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