{"id":154775,"date":"2026-07-18T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154775"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:00:07","slug":"chinese-fossil-find-shows-birds-shed-their-dinosaur-tails-step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154775","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA fossil found in China suggests modern birds shed the long, bony tails of their dinosaur ancestors through a step-by-step process, rather than a sudden evolutionary transition as previously believed.<br \/>\nThe transition to a short, feathered tail was one of the most important steps in the evolution and survival of birds, the only living group of dinosaurs to survive a mass extinction event 66 million years ago.<br \/>\n\u201cThe evolutionary assembly of the flight-adapted bird body plan encompasses some of the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360777\/chinese-fossil-find-shows-birds-shed-their-dinosaur-tails-step-step?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA fossil found in China suggests modern birds shed the long, bony tails of their dinosaur ancestors through a step-by-step process, rather than a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}