AI scanned 15,000 bird skeletons and found bursts of evolution linked to major climate shifts over 45 million years
- For millions of years, birds have been changing in ways that are difficult to see from the present day.
- A skeleton in a museum may look like a fixed record of one species, but taken together, thousands of specimens can reveal how bodies changed across vast stretches of time.
- That is what a team at the University of Michigan set out to investigate in passerines, the enormous bird group that includes songbirds and many familiar species.
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- For millions of years, birds have been changing in ways that are difficult to see from the present day.
- A skeleton in a museum may look like a fixed record of one species, but taken together, thousands of specimens can reveal how bodies changed across vast stretches of time.
- That is what a team at the University of Michigan set out to investigate in passerines, the enormous bird group that includes songbirds and many familiar species.
Sources: Times of India