#precocial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #precocial, aggregated by home.social.
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#Fossils reveal how ancient #birds molted, could explain why modern birds survived while other #dinosaurs died https://phys.org/news/2023-07-fossils-reveal-ancient-birds-molted.html
Immature #feathers preserved in #Burmite provide evidence of rapid molting in #enantiornithines: Jingmai O'Connor et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123001003
"the pressures of being a #precocial baby bird that had to keep itself warm, while undergoing a rapid molt, might have been a factor in the ultimate doom of the Enantiornithines."