幼生オビラプトリアサウルスの尾の羽を切り替える
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Natural History Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8150, USA. richard.prum@Yale.edu
Nature
|November 5, 2010
まとめ
中国から新たに発見されたオビラプトリサウルスの羽は,若いシミリカウディプテリックスが,特殊な尾の羽ではなく,化石化した羽の細菌を発達させたことを示唆している. この発見は,初期の羽の進化に関する新しい洞察を提供します.
科学分野:
- パレオントロジー・パレオントロジー
- 進化生物学の進化生物学について
- 化石の研究について
背景:
- 中国の寧にあるイクシアン群は,羽ばたき恐竜を含む,例外的に保存された化石で有名です.
- 羽毛のあるセロポッド恐竜のグループであるオビラプトロサウルスは,鳥類の進化を理解するために重要なデータを提供します.
- 絶滅種における羽毛の形態学と進化は,その生物学と進化史を再構築する上で鍵となる.
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