Fernando Novas

Paleontologist at the Felix de Azara Natural History Foundation, Buenos Aires

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Born: April 7, 1960, Buenos Aires

Last updated Nov 2, 2026

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Earliest known flightless bird lived alongside flying Jurassic species

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Wrote accompanying commentary in Nature

A crow-sized bird that lived 150 million years ago in southeastern China never flew. Its fossil, described October 14 in the journal Nature, is the earliest known flightless bird, which means flightlessness appeared almost as soon as birds did.

Updated Oct 25