Unique Ancient Bird Preserved in Amber

摘要

>Smaller than a sparrow, a 99-million-year-old bird preserved in amber made some very big news in July. "I've never seen anything like this, or even close," says paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. O'Connor is a co-first author on the Current Biology paper that introduced the world to Elektorornis chenguangi, a new species of Cretaceous bird known from a single partial specimen.