The tiny fossil, just a few centimeters long, is giving paleontologists a rare window into the early development of a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, researchers report March 5 in Nature Communications. (sciencenews.org)
Among them: Why did a large class of now - extinct birds called Enantiornithines (which were superficially similar to modern birds) die out? (sciencemag.org)
The fact that they could get a genome from a little bush moa toe bone is a big deal, since now we might be able to use their data to do other extinct bird species.» (scientificamerican.com)