Scientist disputes missing fossil link theory

  • 22/01/2000

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)

A fossil, hailed as an important find for the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, is really a composite of fossils from different creatures, a Chinese scientist says.Xu Xing, an eminent paleontologist in Beijing, said he had found fossils to prove that the fossilized turkey-sized creature unveiled last year might not be the evolutionary link some thought it was.