A 127-million-year-old Fossil Bird, <i>Jinguofortis perplexus</i> (IMAGE)

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A 127-million-year-old Fossil Bird, <i>Jinguofortis perplexus</i>

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A 127-million-year-old fossil bird, Jinguofortis perplexus (reconstruction on the right, artwork by Chung-Tat Cheung), second earliest member of the short-tailed birds Pygostylia.

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WANG Min

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