Natural gas is a fossil fuel used as a source of energy for heating, cooking, and electricity<span> generation. It is also used as fuel for vehicles and as a chemical feedstock in the manufacture of plastics and other commercially important organic chemicals.</span>
The answer is; It provided clues for scientists to develop a hypothesis about the origin of flight.
Scientists now postulate that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds. This because the Microraptor is a dinosaur with feathers in all its limbs. It is also the smallest dinosaur to every been discovered and has been compared with the Archaeopteryx (involving even genetic sequencing) to hypothesize how dinosaurs evolved into birds.