Song from the distant past, a new fossil pheasant from China preserves a super-elongated windpipe

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A well preserved, nearly complete skeleton of a new extinct species of pheasant that lived between seven and 11 million years ago adjacent to the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China preserves the oldest evidence of a bird having modified and specialized its vocalization sounds (songs or calls).

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