In China, found one of the oldest birdlike dinosaurs

The find was made in the province of Xinjiang in western China, where the lizard Haplocheirus sollers lived 160 million years ago.
"Gaplocherius-dinosaur transitional form because it is one of the first evolutionary steps to the bizarre species of dinosaurs, which are later types korotkolapyh alvareszavrid.On shows how alvareszavridy started their development from earlier species of predatory dinosaurs, which include well-known savage Predators velotsiraptory.Eto discovery confirms our previous speculation that these lizards - not a group of immature birds, as an independent unit of animals whose evolution began in the Jurassic period long before the birds, "- said one of the sponsors of the publication Johan Choynier (Jonah Choiniere), as quoted by the press office of the George Washington University in the United States.