THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS

27/01/2018     http://www.quo.es/ciencia/el-origen-de-las-aves

Researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, the first

description of the geologically oldest fossil of the genus Archeopteryx, the oldest

known species of bird. It is the key to differentiating dinosaurs similar to birds

from their closest relatives.

This fossil helps to study the evolutionary chain of bird, there are 11 types of fossil

and the recent discovered has high degree of variation in teeth, so that means that it

had a different diet and that the evolution chart could change.

Scientific field: Paleontology

Glossary: -Archaeopteryx : the oldest bird species still discovered

      -Evolutionary polymorphism: is a condition in which a

population possesses more than one allele at a locus.

            -Allele: is a variant form of a given gene.

   -Locus: is a fixed position on a chromosome, such as

the position of a marker generator.

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This fossil is an important discovery to know how was the  evolution of birds, to know how it has influenced to our evolution or for discover any species.

Adrià Salamó