It's not often that we are introduced to a large new clade of stem-birds*, but a new paper by Wang et al. finds support for just such a thing among the enantiornithes. Named
Bohaiornithidae, the family unites a few previously-known similar-looking opposite birds with two brand new species.
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Phylogeny of Bohaiornithidae, modified after Wang et al. 2014. |