Madagascar is home to many strange, scaly creatures, from the saber-toothed croctigers to the fleet-footed cains, but amid these antidelvian monsters, there dwell other predators. Small, nimble, and sleekly feathered, the rahonavids look rather like Eurasian draks, but are actually from a different line, an avialan line that is close to the deinonychosaurs some time during the Jurassic. With weakly stiffened tails and birdlike shoulders, the Malagasy bureaucrat birds are the descendants of Rahonavis, a Late Cretaceous relative of Archaeopteryx. The discovery of this fact has been very fortunate not only for specbiology but also for paleontology, because DNA studies of this group have shown that Rahonavis (and therefore probably Archaeopteryx) is more closely related to dromaeosaurs than to
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| - Madagascar is home to many strange, scaly creatures, from the saber-toothed croctigers to the fleet-footed cains, but amid these antidelvian monsters, there dwell other predators. Small, nimble, and sleekly feathered, the rahonavids look rather like Eurasian draks, but are actually from a different line, an avialan line that is close to the deinonychosaurs some time during the Jurassic. With weakly stiffened tails and birdlike shoulders, the Malagasy bureaucrat birds are the descendants of Rahonavis, a Late Cretaceous relative of Archaeopteryx. The discovery of this fact has been very fortunate not only for specbiology but also for paleontology, because DNA studies of this group have shown that Rahonavis (and therefore probably Archaeopteryx) is more closely related to dromaeosaurs than to
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| - Madagascar is home to many strange, scaly creatures, from the saber-toothed croctigers to the fleet-footed cains, but amid these antidelvian monsters, there dwell other predators. Small, nimble, and sleekly feathered, the rahonavids look rather like Eurasian draks, but are actually from a different line, an avialan line that is close to the deinonychosaurs some time during the Jurassic. With weakly stiffened tails and birdlike shoulders, the Malagasy bureaucrat birds are the descendants of Rahonavis, a Late Cretaceous relative of Archaeopteryx. The discovery of this fact has been very fortunate not only for specbiology but also for paleontology, because DNA studies of this group have shown that Rahonavis (and therefore probably Archaeopteryx) is more closely related to dromaeosaurs than to the short-tailed birds.
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