The remains of fossil birds, forgotten in a Chinese museum have all chances to really be considered the skeleton of the world#39;s birds.
The journal Nature says that the sample Aurornis xui Chinese farmer was found a couple of years ago. But although he remained unknown until a paleontologist Pascal Godefroy came across the fossils last year at the Museum of Geology in Yizhou.
From my point of view, it#39;s a bird, - said Godfrey, who works at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. Although this kind of conjecture rather ambiguous, as it concerns the origins of this category when the differences between birds and dinosaurs were pretty thin.
Godfrey and his team wrote a note about Aurornis xui, which was published in the latest issue of the journal «Nature», where it is described as the simplest form of the bird that was once was detected.
Finally, why is there a discussion about the fact that this sample should be considered the first bird in the world? First, Aurornis xui, and more popular as Aurora, probably could not fly. Instead of this, the scientists believe that it has used its four wings to run fast in the woods at the end of the Jurassic period in the range of 150-160 million years ago.
And yet, Aurora had a pelvic bone, which largely resemble the skeleton of modern birds. And because its feathers are not left in fossils, scientists have not confidently say, in fact it has been able to fully fly.
In early April 2012 the remains of a huge feathered dinosaurs have been found in China, which is considered to be the oldest known feathered dinosaur in history. It has been estimated, in fact, he lived between 10 million after the family of birds Aurora.
