Robert Clarkのインスタグラム(robertclarkphoto) - 5月12日 00時54分
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago devastated the dinosaurs. But today's birds are proof there were a few survivors.
On my most recent article for @ナショナルジオグラフィック, I was able to pull from my archive and create new work for the article "The Dinosaurs that Didn't Die" published in the May Issue of the magazine.
1.) a Cassowary, which would fall into the Palaeognathae order are related more closely to the Kiwi, Rheas and the Emu.
2.) Ghostly Feathers of an early swift are preserved on the 48-million-year-old fossil found in Germany, in an area known as the Messel Pits. Swifts and hummingbirds share a common ancestor that may have evolved a few million years after the mass extinction.
Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago. The Pits provides unique information about the early stages of the evolution of mammals and birds.
3.)This is a MouseBird and fossils from an ancient mousebird. Today most of the mousebirds live in Africa, but these fossils were found in what today is New Mexico about 62 million years ago. The rare fossil helped scientist better understand what bird lineages split from each other, thus supporting the theory that birds expereinced an evllutionary boom soon after the asteroid strike.
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