What did the first birds on earth look like? The studio reveals itself

KOMPAS.com – Have you ever imagined what it would be like bird the first on Earth? Recent studies may be able to answer your curiosity.

A new study has revealed that Earth’s first birds looked more modern than previously thought.

The conclusion was obtained after the researchers analyzed fossil bird skull lived 66.7 million years ago.

Bird the earliest known divergence from bipedal theropod dinosaurs about 165 million years to 150 million years ago.

They coexisted with dinosaurs during the Cretaceous until mass extinction wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.

But a more detailed understanding of how birds evolved is still elusive because there are almost no Cretaceous bird fossils.

The dinosaur-killing asteroid also wiped out many ancient bird lineages, leaving only a few survivors to give rise to modern bird lineages.

The lack of evidence leaves many questions about what the first birds looked like.

Until finally researchers found fossils Janavis finalidensa toothed bird the size of a vulture not directly related to any modern bird.

However, this bird is a close relative of the ancestor of modern birds in the last days of the dinosaurs.