Zhou Zhonghe

Co-author of the study, paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

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Earliest known flightless bird lived alongside flying Jurassic species

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Co-author of the Nature paper

A crow-sized bird that lived 150 million years ago in southeastern China never flew. Its fossil, described October 14 in the journal Nature, is the earliest known flightless bird and shows flightlessness appeared almost as soon as birds did.

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