Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

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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Main Authors: 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: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12089

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