Cellular preservation of musculoskeletal specializations in the Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis
Birds have a more crouched posture compared to their theropod dinosaur ancestors. Here, Jiang and colleagues describe a lower hindlimb of the Early Cretaceous birdConfuciusorniswith soft tissues apparently preserved even as molecules, indicating a somewhat more modern posture in ancient birds.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14779 |