lineage

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The team concluded that this reduction likely occurred in a common ancestor before the lineage split into multiple species.

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"Any information that can fill in the gaps of what we don't know about dinosaur and bird brains is important in understanding flight and neurosensory evolution within pterosaur and bird lineages," Balanoff says.

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He explains, "Remarkably, Nadja's work showed that bristleworm eyes can also add new photoreceptor cells and expand their size -- a trait that has not been well studied outside the vertebrate lineage."

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It is now considered the earliest known representative of Dyrosauridae -- a lineage of ancient crocodiles that differed substantially from the crocodiles seen today.

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Except for a few deliberate crosses, researchers have found little evidence of genetic mixing after domestication established separate lineages.

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