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New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives
01 October 2026 EN sci-news ✎ édité manuellement

New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives

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Norellraptor barsboldi, a new species of small microraptorine dinosaur from the 120-million-year-old rock beds of China’s Liaoning province, challenges the idea that the earliest fliers shared a common blueprint for taking to the air. The post New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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Wang, Xuri; Ji, Yannan; Cau, Andrea; Kundrát, Martin; Liu, Yichuan; Wang, Yang; Ji, Qiang (29 September 2026). "Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade". Nature Communications. 17 (1) 10074

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-77804-6 ↗
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