Sunday, 13 March 2016

The fabulous flight-facilitating furcula

The fabulous flight-facilitating furcula

Unusual bone in the chest links the birds to their dinosaurian ancestors. The furcula is critical to flight in modern birds, but its apparent absence in dinosaurs was one of the reasons it took so long to correctly identify dinosaurs as the ancestors of birds.

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