New Bird Fossil Hints at More Undiscovered Chinese Treasures

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 16:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- The study of Mesozoic birds and the dinosaur-bird transition is one of the most exciting and vigorous fields in vertebrate paleontology today. A newly described bird from the Jehol Biota of northeast China suggests that scientists have only tapped a small proportion of the birds and dinosaurs that were living at that time, and that the rocks still have many secrets to reveal.

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