Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? It's a Newly Discovered Microraptorine Dinosaur
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Scientists have found an unusually well-preserved fossil of a small, feathered dinosaur, providing new clues to how the ability to fly may have evolved.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Joo-young = Analysis of a newly discovered feathered dinosaur fossil in China has revealed that this dinosaur is a new species of microraptorin (mi...) that is a close relative of birds.
The finding of ‘Norellraptor barsboldi’ adds evidence to reinforce the theory that the ability to fly arose independently in primitive birds and other dinosaurs
There was a time, more than 100 million years ago, when flying was nothing more than an experiment. There were no modern birds sweeping the skies, nor bats. But there were, yes, small dinosaurs covered with feathers that rehearsed different solutions: wings in the arms, long feathers on the legs, tails turned into aerodynamic surfaces... Evolution proved different possibilities.For more than a century, science has taken for granted that the flig…
Artistic reconstruction of Norellraptor barsboldi, a new dinosaur with feathers described from a fossil found in China. Zhao Chuang A new dinosaur with feathers found in northeastern China is helping scientists to better understand how some of the structures associated with the flight arose among the closest relatives of birds. Baptized by Norellraptor barsboldi, the average animal about 57 centimeters. The fossil is almost complete and also pre…
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