Amidst remains of turtles and fish preserved in a southeastern China fossil bed, scientists have uncovered the skeleton of a dinosaur with curious bird-like features.
Remains of early bird ancestors like this are hard to come by, so they each hold important clues to the evolution of birds and the environment of Earth they experienced.was found in Zhenghe Fauna, to recognize the extraordinary diversity and unique composition found at that time and place in Earth's history.
For decades, the preserved 150-million-year-old remains of a dinosaur called, finding the famously feathered creature has more in common with a group called Deinonychosauria than Avialae. With few other convincing bird-like fossils from this time, researchers can only guess at what such an early bird might have looked like.might have at least a few answers, straddling the line between ancient dinosaur and more modern birds.
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