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According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod
that had both primitive and derived features, according to the Fukui
Prefectural Dinosaur
Museum Fukui
Fukuivenator is a species that existed when theropods began to evolve
into birds.
Fukuivenator “failed to become a bird”, an expert said.
Fukuivenator was about 2.5 metres long and weighed about 25 kg.
The discovery emerged from a study of some 160 fossil fragments from
an animal found in August 2007 in a stratum from the Lower Cretaceous period,
some 120 million years ago. Some 70 percent of its body parts were left in very
good condition.
Fukuivenator, which was covered with feathers, had two-forked cervical
vertebrae, which are not found in any other theropod. Its hearing was
equivalent to that of birds, and the shapes of its scapula and thighbones are
similar to those of the primitive Coelurosaur, from which flying animals
originated.
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