Bird evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, December 12, 2014, 00:40 (3423 days ago)

An explosion of over 10,000 species in 15 million years:-"Based on this new genomic data, only a few bird lineages survived the mass extinction. They gave rise to the more than 10,000 Neoaves species that comprise 95 percent of all bird species living with us today. The freed-up ecological niches caused by the extinction event likely allowed rapid species radiation of birds in less than 15 million years, which explains much of modern bird biodiversity."- Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-12-international-team-big-bird-evolution.html#jCp