family tree of birds (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

family tree of birds

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Figure 1. Simplified family tree of birds. All seven fossil birds with meals fossilised in their stomachs are colour coded. The other 150+ named species of Mesozoic birds do not preserve any meals.

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Image credit: Case Vincent Miller & Michael Pittman, silhouettes from phylopic.org.

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