University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid evolutionary bursts and that these bursts frequently coincided with climate shifts throughout Earth’s history.
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I love that Cock-of-the-Rock was their choice of thumbnail. They’re the weirdest looking birds (apart from Shoebills, but those aren’t passeriformes, the main focus of the study)