Fifty million years ago, you couldn’t feed a pigeon – because it would have fed on you. Thank goodness for evolution.
An international team of scientists have described an extraordinary evolutionary process that unfolded over a period of 50 million years in which a lineage of carnivorous dinosaurs shrank steadily and acquired numerous traits that led to the first appearance of birds.
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