Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
The plumage of Cretaceous birds has previously been described only from compression fossils and isolated feathers in amber. Here, Xing et al.describe two 99 million year old bird wings found preserved in amber, enabling new insight into the evolution of feather arrangement, pigmentation, and structu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12089 |