Shrinking Dinosaurs Evolved into Flying Birds

Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Miniaturization over 50 million years may have allowed birds to survive and evolve from their dinosaur relatives. In essence, bird ancestors out-shrank and out-evolved their dinosaur relatives to survive where these giant, less evolvable beasts couldn't.

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