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Cretaceous Bird from China Had Pair of Tail Feathers Twice as Long as Its Body


Named Plumadraco bankoorum, the newly-described species of enantiornithine bird lived in what is now northeastern China during the Cretaceous period, roughly 121 million years ago.

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