Retention of the flight-adapted avian finger-joint complex in the Ostrich helps identify when wings began evolving in dinosaurs
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DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2017.1422566
Abstract: The functional anatomies of avian finger joints have never been compared with those of the basal avian Archaeopteryx lithographica or maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs. These startling oversights are due to unfamiliarity of the joints outside of… read more here.
Keywords: avian finger; flight adapted; flight; adapted avian ... See more keywords