A team of paleontologists from China, the
United States and South Africa has described a new species of a feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern China during the Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.

The new dinosaur, named Changyuraptor
yangi, belongs to Microraptoria – a specific group of predatory four-winged raptorial dinosaurs. These dinosaurs are dubbed ‘four-winged’ because the long feathers attached to the legs have the appearance of a second set of wings. The long feathers attached to the legs and arms of these creatures have led some scientists to propose that the four-winged dinosaurs were capable of flying.

At 1.3-meter-long, Changyuraptor yangi is
the biggest of all four-winged dinosaurs.
Its well-preserved fossil was unearthed in
the Liaoning Province of northeastern
China. According to a paper published in the
journal Nature Communications, Changyuraptor yangi sported a full set of
feathers cloaking its entire body, including
the extra-long tail feathers. “At a foot in length, the amazing tail feathers of Changyuraptor yangi are by far the longest of any feathered dinosaurs, " said Co-author Dr Luiz Chiappe From the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

The paleontologists believe that the discovery consolidates the notion that flight preceded the origin of birds, being inherited by the latter from their dinosaurian forerunners.

Co-author Dr Alan Turner of Stony Brook
University said: “numerous features that we
have long associated with birds in fact evolved in dinosaurs long before the first
birds arrived on the scene. This includes
things such as hollow bones, nesting behavior, feathers and possibly flight.” “How well these creatures used the sky as a thoroughfare has remained controversial.

The new discovery explains the role that the
tail feathers played during flight control. For
larger flyers, safe landings are of particular
importance.” “It makes sense that the largest
microraptorines had especially large tail
feathers – they would have needed the
additional control,” explained co-author Dr
Michael Habib from the University of
Southern California.

Some will believe that the newly discovered Dinosaur can be a sign of end time. While, Science wil just conclude that its an evolution in the part of the Dinosaurs Cycle. (My opinion though)

Your thought?

Sourced from: www.scinews.com/paleontology/science-changyuraptor-yangi-feathered-dinosaur-china-02065.html

China!...


Sounds like a fiction, and the picture is not even helping..

Cool

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I need the real picture and not this left hand drawing

OK

always in China

video of it or adonbelivit

I just imagine these things invading Nigeria. #creepy

See as dem rush give d dinosaur chinese name

Na was for this Asian countries o. Na still there dem discover that white Chicken wey get hair like Persian cat and the meat black. God is great sha.

na wa o. still hard to believe that awkward animals like this actually existed.

na lie o I no believe.....

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deri4luv1: .

How much are u selling this space?

I was here

Hmm...I was expecting a real fossil picture. Anyway, we all know dinosaurs existed.

Amazing

A movie... indeed

Okay, I wud ave luv to c d real One nt drawings

deri4luv1: .

busted

...'about 125 million years ago'?

Ajambene

Stories like Kenyapetecus to Zynjatropus to Homo Habilis to Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens (modern man)

Bull crap!! As fake as Andyblaze's posts on the romance section.

Weird

Wow

Ewwww..

wat is dis

Next please

Not for sale.
Beware of the poster below me!

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Sounds like a fiction, and the picture is not even helping..

they didnt actually discover the dinosaur, read throught well. they discovered it remains. like the bones. so that picture was just projected based on assumption

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deri4luv1: .

Dygeasy: .

bunch of space bookers

Nothing new