December 10, 2000

8:47 PM

Birds are not descended from Dinosaurs. The latest in the ongoing debate about the origin of birds and whether they evolved from dinosaurs or from a earlier common ancestor. Chinese scientists report the discovery of a 120 million year old bird fossil that had feathers and could clearly fly.
posted by lagado (3 comments total)

i want to read more..but the link wont work. Is it just me??
posted by pehtes at 10:31 PM on December 10, 2000

I tried to fix this, but abcnews was doing some odd cookie/redirect. I changed the link to a Yahoo news source. The article is exact, it's a syndicated Reuters story.
posted by mathowie at 10:38 PM on December 10, 2000

thanks matt
posted by lagado at 10:40 PM on December 10, 2000