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New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails


Paleontologists in China have described a small, previously unknown Jurassic bird whose short tail offers new evidence for how the earliest birds traded their long, dinosaur-like tails for the compact tailbone that helps living birds fly.

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