Oldest Bird Key Dinosaur Mystery

Washington - The creature with pointy teeth, sharp claws and a feature that confusing once again been demonstrated and all led to the dinosaurs, not a bird, according to the Daily Mail reports.

Sollers Haplocheirus lived 15 million years before the discovery of the first flying bird, Archaeopteryx, and supports the theory that birds evolved independently - like dinosaurs.

Sollers Halopcherius lived 160 million years ago and has broken the myth that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

A complete fossilized skeleton of the dinosaur as long as 10 feet have been found by scientists during the expedition to the Gobi desert in China in 2004.

Privileges difference is large claws on each hand which may be used for digging.

Alvarezsaurids a bird species have been found for several years, and since its discovery in the 1920s, scientists have debated whether this type is really a dinosaur.

Then many who insist on Alvarazsaurids, which has a size smaller than Haplocheirus, bird species actually can not fly.

The new fossil discoveries have been calm the debate, make sure they are without doubt the identity of the dinosaurs, and also has overcome significant gaps in knowledge about the evolution of birds.

Most scientists believe modern birds are direct descendants of the types of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs. But there are a number of different views that birds evolved in isolation.


Those who oppose the theory of 'dinobird' indicates the fact that all the most obvious examples of bird species like the dinosaurs only exist millions of years after Archaeopteryx. The evolution of birds has evolved away even before all that exists.

Haplocheirus oppose this tendency, because they lived long before the first bird. The researchers now believe, the fossil shows a variety of bird species such as dinosaurs and birds that have been distorted in the late Jurassic period, about 160 years ago.

The scientists believe Haplocheirus represent different types of dinosaurs and birds of pedigree.

His ancestors were dinosaurs that continues to evolve into a number of groups, including one type that is left up to now as modern birds.

"It is like a remarkable discovery in your family that you replace the pedigree," said Jonah Choiniere of the University of Washington.