A New "Missing Link" in Dinosaur's Evolution Found

A group of paleontologists from China, the United States and Canada have made new progress in tracking down the process of the evolution of small-sized dinosaurs and the origin of birds through intensive analysis of the fossils of a newly found dinosaur, Sinovenator, a close relative of birds. In a letter published in the Feb. 14 issue of Nature, dinosaur expert Dr. Xu Xing at CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and his coworkers reveal some interesting phenomena in the process of the evolution of dinosaurs towards birds.