Feathered "Dancing Dragon" Fossil May Provide Insights Into How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs

Maitreyi Mantha
Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:26:48 -0700

Paleontologists have long determined that modern-day birds evolved from smaller members of the two-legged, meat-eating theropods, such as velociraptors. However, for many years, the only transitional fossil linking the two had been that of the archaeopteryx — a bird-dinosaur hybrid that lived on Earth about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period.