Thursday, November 24, 2011

Microraptor Ate Birds

Apparently, there has been a fossil found of a microraptor with a bird in its stomach. It's interesting to learn that microraptor and birds existed at the same time. This raises some questions about the bird-dinosaur lineage.

Here are some articles on it:

http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosausr-eats-bird-111123.html

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/four-winged-dinosaur-fossilized-after-swallowing-a-bird.ars
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2 comments:

  1. AlbertonykusNovember 24, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Not really, we've always known there were avialians (birds) around by then!

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  2. Holly AmberNovember 25, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    Yea I'm sure some paleo fanatics did, but not everyone. It's still an interesting fossil find at least.

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