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18 mar 2020 · An early ancestor to ducks and chickens waddled along the shores of modern-day Europe just before the asteroid impact that caused a global extinction event.
The spectacular fossil, affectionately nicknamed the ‘Wonderchicken’, includes a nearly complete skull, hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and dates from less than one million years before the asteroid impact which eliminated all large dinosaurs.
18 mar 2020 · A nearly complete bird skull found encased in rock has been revealed to be the oldest modern bird. “Wonderchicken,” as the researchers call it, lived among dinosaurs and survived after they ...
18 mar 2020 · ‘Wonderchicken’ is the earliest known modern bird at nearly 67 million years old. The animal is a common ancestor of today’s ducks and chickens. Vertebrate paleontologist Daniel Field of the...
6 cze 2022 · In 2020, a study of 863 living chickens’ genomes confirmed that the jungle fowl Gallus gallus spaedicus subspecies was the ancestor of living chickens; chickens share more of their DNA with that subspecies than other types of jungle fowl.
20 mar 2020 · The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of paleontologists. The spectacular fossil, affectionately nicknamed the 'Wonderchicken,' includes a nearly complete skull, hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and da
21 sty 2021 · Eight haplotypes in four indigenous chicken breeds (CH, BT, NK-W, and NK-B) and four red junglefowl populations (Roi Et, Khok Mai Rua, Chaiyaphum, and Huai Yang Pan) belonged to haplogroup E (Fig...
