Although we are aware that current birds are descended from dinosaurs like the T. rex, when and how did this happen? The Chinese fossil from 120 million years ago sheds light on the evolution of current birds.
Tag: Cretaceous
Paleontologists find a new species of crocodile with the thickest eggs ever
Paleontologists have uncovered a new crocodile species that lived with the last dinosaurs and laid the thickest eggs ever discovered.
The world’s earliest known belly button was found on an early-cretaceous dinosaur
Many of our questions about how they lived and what they were like would be answered if we lived in a world where tourists could travel to a remote island resort and see living dinosaurs — or run for from them, as in Jurassic World. Unfortunately, we must rely on information gleaned from fossil remains preserved in rock tens of millions of years ago.