Green Options » avian http://greenoptions.com/tag/avian Posts tagged 'avian' Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:33:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Feathered Dinosaur From the Jurassic Period Discovered in China http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/23/feathered-dinosaur-from-the-jurassic-period-discovered-in-china/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/23/feathered-dinosaur-from-the-jurassic-period-discovered-in-china/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:33:49 +0000 Sam Aola Ooko http://ecoworldly.com/2008/10/23/feathered-dinosaur-from-the-jurassic-period-discovered-in-china/ Feathered Dinosaur From the Jurassic Period Discovered in China Archaeologists in China have discovered the fossilized remains of a feathered dinosaur the size of a pigeon believed to have lived millions of years before birds evolved but which may be an early avian ancestor.

The discovery of a 90% intact fossil preserved in a slab of rock at a site in Laioning Province in Inner Mongolia, heightens the notion that tiny-bodied, carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs are closely related to and most certainly evolved into birds.

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