#Solnhofen #avialans suggest that
#Alcmonavis & #Ostromia *might*
be the same as #Archaeopteryx 👀
This is exciting!

Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria) In recent years, several studies on the osteology, myology and palaeobiology of southern paravians of the clade Unenlagiidae have considerably increased the information on the group. Nevertheless, ...

So there is this new paper which shows that unenlagiids were actually secondarily flightless #avialans. Which is cool and all, though what confuses me is that Greg Paul isn’t cited anywhere in it, despite him being the first and strongest supporter of this idea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photography of three sparrows on a safety bar near Lake Geneva (also called Lake Leman), one of the birds is flying away, Guillaume Babey, 2024

Caught mid-flight #birds #sparrow #avialans #photography #nature #lakegeneva #leman #switzerland