99 million Year Old Bird Transition Found

[Anomalocaris]

This is so cool! When I was a kid, we were told dinosaurs were extinct. To realize that some survived and live on, as an amazingly adaptable group of animals, is so exciting to me.

Actually, birds being dinosaurs, there are still far more living species of dinosaurs in the world today than there are living mammal species, despite our vainglorious effort to label the last 64 million years as the "Age of mammals"

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This is awesome. But cue Creationist excuse making

http://www.sciencealert.com/99-million-y...d-in-amber

Also, "99-million-year-old-dinosaur-wings" is accurate but seems to have been intended to mislead in this context.  Birds are a subset of dinosaurs, yes.   But what was found seem to be the wings of a true bird, albeit a lineage of birds which went extinct with all non-avian dinosaurs and were not closely related to modern birds. It is however not a non-avian dinosaur or a transition between non-avian and avian dinosaur.

[ignoramus]

[Amarok]

This is so cool! When I was a kid, we were told dinosaurs were extinct. To realize that some survived and live on, as an amazingly adaptable group of animals, is so exciting to me.

Actually, birds being dinosaurs, there are still far more living species of dinosaurs in the world today than there are living mammal species, despite our vainglorious effort to label the last 64 million years as the "Age of mammals"

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This is awesome. But cue Creationist excuse making

http://www.sciencealert.com/99-million-y...d-in-amber

Also, "99-million-year-old-dinosaur-wings" is accurate but seems to have been intended to mislead in this context.  Birds are a subset of dinosaurs, yes.   But what was found seem to be the wings of a true bird, albeit a lineage of birds which went extinct with all non-avian dinosaurs and were not closely related to modern birds.   It is however not a non-avian dinosaur or a transition between non-avian and avian dinosaur.

Changed the title

And adding some more articles

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ummm, Amber...

[Amarok]

Here's another article It's better

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...180959599/

And another

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/...iornithes/

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