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Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>At this point, scientists believe that birds are descended from a certain group of dinosaurs. But there is no consensus among them as to how the evolutionary process proceeded. The recently discovered remains of a previously unknown species may help answer this issue.<\/p>\n

A group of scientists led by paleontologist Zhou Zhonghe from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found a new animal species in northern China that has the body of a bird and the skull of a dinosaur. It lived approximately 120 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.<\/p>\n

According to scientists, this species was between the lizard-like Archaeopteryx, which still strongly resembles a predatory dinosaur, and the Ornithothoraces, which already includes birds in the general sense of the word. The species was named Cratonavis zhui.<\/p>\n

By performing a CT scan of the Cratonavis’ skull, the researchers found that morphologically it was almost identical to the skull of a predatory dinosaur, such as the Tyrannosaurus.<\/p>\n

As for the structure of the body, the Cratonavis was not very different from the modern sparrow. Judging by the structure of the very long scapula, it could fly, and the scapula itself compensated for the absence of a breastbone, adapted to provide the pectoral muscles with a large surface for attachment. The hind limbs, on the other hand, were adapted to grasping prey with claws and sitting on branches rather than moving on the ground.<\/p>\n

Scientists believe that this mix of traits was dictated by various environmental stimuli during the period when biodiversity was actively developing. The discovery itself will help to better understand the evolutionary process of the ancestors of modern birds.<\/p>\n

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