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From Dinosaurs to Hummingbirds: New Family Tree Revises Our Understanding of Bird Evolution


The most extensive genomic study to date has unveiled how the birds spread all over the world after mass extinction. Birds represent the sole surviving lineage of dinosaurs in the present day. Roughly 66 million years ago, at the transition from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene period (the K–Pg boun

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