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. 2014 Sep 30;12(9):e1001958.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001958. eCollection 2014 Sep.

Resolving the flap over bird wrists

Robin Meadows  1
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Resolving the flap over bird wrists

Robin Meadows. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

New Developmental Evidence Clarifies the Evolution of Wrist Bones in the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

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Figure 1. Since early dinosaurs, birds have reduced the number of bones in their wrist, but the origins and identity of those remaining are hard to trace.
A new combined study of both embryos and fossils provides a more integrated view of their evolution and a proposed revised nomenclature.
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