While fossils of baby enantiornithines, a group of abundant and diverse early-branching birds, are already well-known, our Alaskan fossils are the first Mesozoic remains of baby euornithines, the clade that includes modern birds and their closest Cretaceous relatives!

Thanks @pro-pink.bsky.social :)
Congrats again on your nice paper!
Here is a short-term OA link to the dispatch article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzR93QW8S...

Original paper by Pinkert & colleagues, which shows how burrowing may have facilitated survival in some of the worlds harshest and most changeable environments, in turn contributing to mammal biogeographic patterns: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @pro-pink.bsky.social @consecol.bsky.social

Thanks to @pro-pink.bsky.social for the use of the phylogeny figure from the original paper, @quentinwildlife.bsky.social (quentinmartinez.fr) for the use of some beautiful burrowing mammal images, and to @currentbiology.bsky.social and editor @florianmade.bsky.social for the opportunity.