Ancient Velociraptor Cousin Glided on Four Wings and Hunted Birds
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Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds
A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of more than 100 prehistoric birds, some preserved as partial skeletons, others broken into dense clusters of crushed bones that resemble the pellets modern owls cough up after feeding. Those shattered remains suggested that something larger was hunting the birds. Yet despite decades of work at the site, no one had found the…
For years, paleontologists have found in the Changma Basin, Gansu province of China, clusters of broken and compressed bird bones. They recalled the regurgitated pelotes of modern owls. A great predator was bound to roam in these cretaceous lakes, about 120 million years ago. But no fossils confirmed it. In June 2026, an international team published the description of a new non-avial theropod in the Annals of Carnegie Museum. It is Jian mangmaen…
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