Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossil</span></a> reveals leaf-eating among earliest birds<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-reveals-leaf-eating-earliest-birds.htmp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-r</span><span class="invisible">eveals-leaf-eating-earliest-birds.htmp</span></a></p><p>Intra-gastric <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/phytoliths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phytoliths</span></a> provide evidence for <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/folivory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folivory</span></a> in basal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/avialans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avialans</span></a> of the Early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cretaceous</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/JeholBiota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeholBiota</span></a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40311-z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-023</span><span class="invisible">-40311-z</span></a></p><p>"The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pheasant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pheasant</span></a>-sized <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jeholornis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jeholornis</span></a>, a member of the second most primitive lineage of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a>, has teeth and a long bony tail like its predatory, feathered <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaur</span></a> relatives... It had eaten tree leaves from a group of flowering <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> called <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/magnoliids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magnoliids</span></a>."</p>