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What era did the first birds appear?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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13y ago

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Jurassic perios

the Jurassic period was when the first bird, archaeopteryx, appeared

Toward the end of the Jurassic Period, one of the first birds, Archaeopteryx

(ahr-kee-AHP-ter-iks), appears.

An interesting addendum is that Archaeopteryx is an almost perfect intermediate between the dinosaurs and the birds. It has a series of characteristics that are definitely dinosaurian, yet it has feathers, a wishbone, and wings

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The earliest birds evolved from small, feathered, theropod dinosaurs about 160 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period. Currently, the scientific consensus is that the first bird was the creature that is the common ancestor of all living bird species. This creature has not yet been discovered, but it was probably closely related to Archaeopteryx.

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15y ago

in the Mesozoic era (in the Jurassic period)

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They evolved in the Mesozoic Era

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