Friday, September 8, 2023

Birds are Dinosaurs...

...but we might have to rethink a little bit how they got there. Fujianvenator prodigiosus is one of the earliest bird-like dinosaurs.

And it was a flightless running bird. Long legs, small wings...showing that it had already evolved flight and then given up the habit. Although I actually have a different theory, which paleontologists agree might be possible.

This may be the oldest of the waders...and maybe it did fly, just not very well. Where it was found there were a variety of swamp creatures.

I'm going with wader.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weird-dinosaur-prompts-rethink-of-bird-evolution/

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