How the shape of eggs can help explain the evolutionary history of birds

Date:

November 5, 2014

Source:

University of Lincoln

Summary:

The eggs of amniotes - mammals, reptiles and birds – come in a remarkable variety of shapes and sizes. Evolutionary biologists have now addressed shape variety in terrestrial vertebrates' eggs, pinpointing morphological differences between the eggs of birds and those of their extinct relatives, the theropod dinosaurs.

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