00:00you've probably heard that over the course of evolution dinosaurs eventually turned into birds
00:08that's a sound scientific theory backed by plenty of evidence but now scientists may have found the
00:12smoking gun with regards to that the missing link between dino and modern-day avians the evidence
00:18is a dinosaur fossil one that is described as being a dinosaur skeleton with aspects that are
00:23considerably bird-like what's more it's 30 million years older than even the oldest bird fossils the
00:29discovery was found in a fossil bed in southeastern china and it's just a couple of feet long the
00:33creature also had feathers something akin to modern-day birds they're calling the creature
00:38fujian venator prodigiosus and this is an artist's rendition of what it could have looked like the
00:43researchers say that at some point this creature went in a different direction from the rest of
00:46dinosaur kind with the team writing in the study quote fujian venator is a non-species that diverged
00:52from this main trajectory and evolved bizarre hind limb architecture they added the one downside to
00:56the discovery was that the feet were not well preserved meaning they still need more fossils
01:00to confirm this missing link
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