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New Dino-Bird Gives Finger To Doubters

  • 18-06-2009 12:51AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭


    Another thing to throw onto the giant heap of dino-bird evolution. Intoducing Limusaurus!
    Scientists from The George Washington University and the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China. This finding demonstrates that theropod dinosaurs were more ecologically diverse in the Jurassic period than previously thought and offers important new evidence about how the three-fingered hand of birds evolved from the hand of dinosaurs. The discovery is featured in the most recent issue of Nature.

    Full article here.

    limusaurus_300_330.jpg
    Illustration by Portia Sloan


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