The curious case of how bird wrists evolved

• 成果类型: News Item
• 署名作者: Xu, Xing
• 署名单位: Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, CAS; Yunnan University
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-0952
• DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-02055-2
• 发表日期: 2025-08-21
• 页码: 619-620
• 关键词: homology

摘要

Wrist evolution helped birds to conquer the air. Fossil data and analysis of a modern bird's development reveal that this evolution preceded bird origins