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Is it a bird, is it a dinosaur?

Vocabulary

a hallowed place

a very important status

long hailed as

believed to be for a long time

fossils

the remains of creatures which have been dead for a very long time and have turned to stone

wishbones

a v-shape bone in the neck of birds such as chickens and ducks

perch

a place where a bird rests, such as a branch. Here it is part of an expression "to knock someone off their perch" which means to reduce the status of someone or something

the Jurassic era

a period in the Earth's history which began approximately 200 million years ago

feathery

with feathers

the finding

the conclusions presented by the researchers

implications for

influence on

transition species

an animal which represents an evolutionary step between one and another