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Accord to leading paleontologists, a new, exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in north-eastern China represents the earliest known feathered animal at this point. Estimated to have lived about 150 million years ago, the animal was petrified in mint condition, thus providing experts with the ability to investigate some of the unique characteristics of this amazing dinosaur, the BBC News reports. The feathered creature is considerably older than the ancestor of all birds, a dinosaur known as Archaeopteryx, which was first discovered in Germany. The find was made by Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing Professor Xu Xing and his team. In a paper published in the latest issue of the renowned scientific journal Nature, the expert reveals that the old theory that stated that birds evolved from dinosaurs was troubled by the fact that no feathers older than Archaeopteryx's had been ever found. The journal entry thus provides conclusive evidence that the evolution i!
ndeed took place, and that modern-day birds are, in fact, evolved dinosaurs. Fossils of the early feathered creature came from two separate Chinese locations, which should end all speculations. Professor Xu says that one of the new dinosaur species found in China, named Anchiornis huxleyi, is entirely covered in feathers, from the tip ...
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