New enantiornithine bird with an aerodynamic tail found in China
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 09:33
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new species of Mesozoic bird was published on December 31 in Current Biology by a collaboration of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, providing strong evidence that enantiornithines possessed aerodynamic rectricial fans.