Sunday, December 04, 2005

IOL: Fossil strengthens dinosaur ancestry case

IOL: Fossil strengthens dinosaur ancestry case: "Fossil strengthens dinosaur ancestry case
Steve Connor
December 04 2005 at 06:43AM

A perfectly preserved fossil of a feathered creature that lived 150 million years ago has provided further evidence to show that modern birds originate from dinosaurs.

The fossil is a complete skeleton of an Archaeopteryx and shows that it had features common to birds and a group of meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods."

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