Cellular preservation of musculoskeletal specializations in the Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis

Birds have a more crouched posture compared to their theropod dinosaur ancestors. Here, Jiang and colleagues describe a lower hindlimb of the Early Cretaceous birdConfuciusorniswith soft tissues apparently preserved even as molecules, indicating a somewhat more modern posture in ancient birds.

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Main Authors: Baoyu Jiang, Tao Zhao, Sophie Regnault, Nicholas P. Edwards, Simon C. Kohn, Zhiheng Li, Roy A. Wogelius, Michael J. Benton, John R. Hutchinson
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7193f33b2a9d4e0f94e1ae7f849e6733
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