New bird fossil hints at more undiscovered Chinese treasures
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 23:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The study of Mesozoic birds and the dinosaur-bird transition is one of the most exciting and vigorous fields in vertebrate paleontology today. A newly described bird from the Jehol Biota of northeast China suggests that scientists have only tapped a small proportion of the birds and dinosaurs that were living at that time, and that the rocks still have many secrets to reveal.