{"id":158897,"date":"2026-10-16T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158897"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:00:08","slug":"sorry-darwin-chinese-fossil-shows-that-not-all-early-birds-evolved-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158897","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Darwin: Chinese fossil shows that not all early birds evolved to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have unearthed a fossil of the earliest known flightless bird, offering compelling evidence that not all early birds evolved to take to the skies.<br \/>\nThe discovery could also challenge long-held assumptions \u2013 including ideas dating back to evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin \u2013 that flightlessness in birds arose only as a secondary adaptation after earlier species had mastered flight.<br \/>\nThe 150 million-year-old fossil of the Late Jurassic avialan Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis found in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3371125\/sorry-darwin-chinese-fossil-shows-not-all-early-birds-evolved-fly?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 PostChinese scientists have unearthed a fossil of the earliest known flightless bird, offering compelling evidence that not all early birds evolved to take to&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\/158897"}],"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=158897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}