Limusaurus Inextricabilis - Birdlike Dinosaur May Have Clues To Finger Evolution
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 18:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists who discovered a beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China called Limusaurus inextricabilis ("mire lizard who could not escape") say it demonstrates that theropod, or bird-footed, dinosaurs were more ecologically diverse in the Jurassic period than previously thought. Even more, they write in Nature that it offers important evidence about how the three-fingered hand of birds evolved from the hand of dinosaurs. read more
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