Monday, 12 December 2022

Beak fossil upends bird evolutionary tree


 

Joel Kontinen

Darwinians do not know how birds evolved. now, a 57 million years old beak has written the tree of life of birds again. They say that most modern birds have   “flexible bony palates that allow them to move their upper beak independently of their skull.”

Only a few species, like emus, ostriches and kiwis — have fused palates and fixed beaks, They assumed that all modern birds like these, But a tiny bone suggests that flexiblejaws came first 


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Benito, Juan et al. 2022, Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor, Nature 612, 100–105.flexible jaws came first.