A newly discovered dinosaur provides a fossil snapshot of the reptiles’ evolution into birds, and neatly fills a troublesome transitional gap.
Living 159 million years ago in what is now Western China, Limusaurus inextricabilis was a small, herbivorous member of the theropod family. The coelurosaur branch of that family survives today, in highly modified form, as birds.
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