Flightless ancient bird complicates our picture of wing evolution
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A reconstruction of the Late Jurassic bird Yuezhuornis yangyuanensisMr. Chung-Tat Cheung
A remarkable fossil found in China raises the possibility that some of the earliest bird species never took wing or abandoned flight almost immediately after they had evolved the ability.
Min Wang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences says the discovery of the new flightless species, Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, could mean that powered flight didn’t drive the evolution of birds’ unique anatomy at all.
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A remarkable fossil found in China raises the possibility that some of the earliest bird species never took wing or abandoned flight almost immediately after they had evolved the ability.
Min Wang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences says the discovery of the new flightless species, Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, could mean that powered flight didn’t drive the evolution of birds’ unique anatomy at all.
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