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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Principais autores:	Lida Xing, Ryan C. McKellar, Min Wang, Ming Bai, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Michael J. Benton, Jianping Zhang, Yan Wang, Kuowei Tseng, Martin G. Lockley, Gang Li, Weiwei Zhang, Xing Xu
Format:	Artigo
Sprog:	Inglês
Udgivet:	Nature Portfolio 2016-06-01
Serier:	Nature Communications
Online adgang:	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12089
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