What Exactly Is The Missing Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds?

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You’ve probably heard that over the course of evolution dinosaurs eventually turned into birds. That’s a sound scientific theory backed by plenty of evidence, but now scientists may have found the smoking gun with regards to that, the missing link between dino and modern day avians.

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00:00you've probably heard that over the course of evolution dinosaurs eventually turned into birds

00:08that's a sound scientific theory backed by plenty of evidence but now scientists may have found the

00:12smoking gun with regards to that the missing link between dino and modern-day avians the evidence

00:18is a dinosaur fossil one that is described as being a dinosaur skeleton with aspects that are

00:23considerably bird-like what's more it's 30 million years older than even the oldest bird fossils the

00:29discovery was found in a fossil bed in southeastern china and it's just a couple of feet long the

00:33creature also had feathers something akin to modern-day birds they're calling the creature

00:38fujian venator prodigiosus and this is an artist's rendition of what it could have looked like the

00:43researchers say that at some point this creature went in a different direction from the rest of

00:46dinosaur kind with the team writing in the study quote fujian venator is a non-species that diverged

00:52from this main trajectory and evolved bizarre hind limb architecture they added the one downside to

00:56the discovery was that the feet were not well preserved meaning they still need more fossils

01:00to confirm this missing link

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