New dinosaur fossil challenges bird evolution theory
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight. A new paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 centimeters in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds were long thought to have evolved from.
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