Scientists say rare to find about 20 pterosaur fossil has produced the first evidence of a controversial theory of evolution.

This is the skull of Darwinopterus, which measures 18.5 centimeters.

The fossils were found in northern China this year, which is embedded in the rocks 160 million years and were considered “Darwinopterus” after the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.

The creature’s discovery surprised scientists, because it depends on your age in both categories recognized pterodactyls – forms of primitive and advanced forms of the long tail short tail – and shows characteristics of both.

The combination of features indicates that the primitive pterodactyls developed quickly enough, and that some groups of functions at the same time changed.

The theory of evolution is a feature would be traditional – a queue, for example – to develop slowly over time.

“Darwinopterus was a shock for us,” says David Unwin of the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, which identifies the nature, in collaboration with researchers from the Geological Institute of Beijing.

“We have always expected, a gap-filler, typical characteristics of an intermediary, like a tail of medium length – either short or long – but the strange thing is Darwinopterus has a head and neck so pterosaurs grew, while the rest of the skeleton is like a very long tail, similar to primitive forms,”he said.

By comparing fossils with other earlier and later periods, scientists have the opportunity to make a sketch of the sequence pterodactyl’s evolution.

“The head and neck develops first, followed by the body, tail, wings and legs,” says Unwin.

The researchers say that further studies are needed to the idea that evolution could give rise to occur relatively quickly and that all parts of a plant or an animal’s body could change everything at once.

Fossils show Darwinopterus was the size of a crow, with long jaws, sharp, sharp teeth and a flexible neck.

E ‘was “Hawk-like” say the notes, the academic world, what the nature of killing and eating little helped, feathered dinosaurs, which later developed into birds.

Pterodactyls were widely distributed in the Mesozoic Era between 220 and 65 million years.

The research was published in the directory “Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.”

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Geologists have discovered a group of dinosaur eggs, has about 65 million years ago in a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to press reports Saturday.

Chennai: Geologists have discovered a group of dinosaur eggs, has about 65 million years ago in a village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to press reports Saturday.

“We found: layer after layer spherical and dinosaur eggs and body parts of each cluster contains eight eggs,” M. Ramkumar, a geologist at the University of Periyar, who was a team led by a survey in the words of Hindu cities.

The eggs, which grew to 8 inches in diameter, discovered in a study funded by Indian institutions and scientists in Germany.

The clusters were caused by ash from volcanic eruptions in the Deccan plain, one might say that geologists have vanished dinosaurs.

The nest was found on the banks of streams and bottom of the basin of the Cauvery river, with a cluster of fossilized eggs, manure and bones of dinosaurs.

The researchers asked the officials to cordon off the site, as a similar discovery in northern India has led to a plundering of fossil fuels.