“Every bird living today, from ostriches ... to bald eagles, probably evolved from a Gansus-like ancestor,” Matthew Lamanna of Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh told a news conference.
Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy the University of Pennsylvania, who oversaw the research, said, “Gansus is very close to a modern bird and helps fill in the big gap between clearly non-modern birds and the explosion of early birds that marked the Cretaceous period, the final era of the Dinosaur Age.” www.redorbit.com/news/.../fossils...waterfowl/index.html
So what did Gansus evolve from? Could it be that the so-called feathered dinosaurs were just small flightless birds?
“Could it be that the so-called feathered dinosaurs were just small flightless birds?”
A very real possibility.