I like watching the "journey, not the goal" evolution of birds play out in fossil finds, in this case, alongside what we already assumed about feather evolution, just putting it WAAAAY farther back in the murky Triassic Archosauria days.
I guess this further explains my irrational mistrust of birds. I always knew there was something not 'quite right' with their bizarre and just plain strange behavior-they're descendants of dinosaurs that's why.
I guess this further explains my irrational mistrust of birds. I always knew there was something not 'quite right' with their bizarre and just plain strange behavior-they're descendants of dinosaurs that's why.
Certainly so in China. Dinosaur fossils (when found) would routinely be ground up and put into medicine as dragon bones. Mining activity in Europe would probably have yielded the same sort of thing.