Baby Bird Discovered in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

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Baby Bird Discovered in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

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Baby bird discovered in 99-million-year-old amber with feathers, colour intact

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-09/b ... er/8603798
Scientists in Myanmar have discovered what they describe as the "most complete" fossil of a baby bird ever recovered from the Cretaceous period, trapped in 99-million-year-old amber.

The hatchling, complete with feathers, claws, skin and soft tissue around the eyelid and external opening of the ear, is believed to be a species from a group of birds called enantiornitheans that went extinct about 65 million years ago.

Almost all enantiornitheans had teeth, and each finger within the wing contained a claw.

In a paper published in Gondwana Research the scientists said the find offered new insight into "the most species-rich clade of pre-modern birds" to have ever existed.
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"most species-rich clade"
This, combined with the relative geographical closeness of dinosaurs like microraptor and other feathered coelurosaurs could be revolutionary.
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