BIRDS ARE THE LAST DINOSAURS — but it took 150 years of analyzing fossils for scientists to come to that now-established conclusion. Yet a new study published last week in the journal Nature reveals living evidence for this fact, no fossils necessary. To see that birds are the inheritors of dinosaurs, you just need to look at birds’ bodies at the right moment in their development, the study finds. Before birds hatch, there is a brief period in the egg when their hip bones bear an uncanny resemblance to their reptilian ancestors.
