The even archaer opteryxes

[sphenisc]

Feathered dinosaurs pre-date birds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/6229800/Scientists-hail-new-species-of-feathered-dinosaurs.html

[jasonpatterson]

I like the adjective. :) It's a cool find and another nice bit of evidence for birds evolving from therapod dinosaurs. I don't think it's going to convince any creationists, of course, but it's not like there was a lot of hope of doing that in the first place.

They named one of the fossils Anchiornis huxleyi, presumably a tribute to Thomas Huxley, who was the first to suggest that birds were therapods that hadn't gone extinct. Just a fun side note.