Yuanchuavis

In Depth        Yuanchuavis is a genus of enantiornithine bird that lived in Asia during the early Cretaceous.‭ ‬Yuanchuavis‭ ‬is confirmed to have had two elongated retrices‭ (‬flight feathers‭) ‬in the tail.‭ ‬Melanosome sampling of the holotype fossil suggests that the elongated‭ ‬retrices would have been black in life,‭ ‬while the remaining tail feathers either iridescent … Read more