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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird


Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived around 150 million years ago and had a short tail like those of modern birds

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Quail

Photo of earliest known bird

earliest known bird