Flight pressure slows down the evolution of dinosaurs to birds

Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, June 6th (Reporter Lu Chengkuan) How did dinosaurs evolve into birds that roamed the blue sky billions of years ago? On the 6th, the reporter learned from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that researchers at the institute found that the evolution from dinosaurs to birds was accompanied by a decrease in limb bone diversity and evolution speed, which was mainly influenced by the forelimbs. The flight pressure caused the evolution speed of primitive bird forelimbs to be relatively slower and have lower diversity...

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