Dino-bird with four wings found

The link.

Quote :

A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to
scientists’ understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers
report. The lithe creature, which stood about 28 centimeters tall at
the hip, is the oldest known to have sported feathers and is estimated
to be between 1 million and 11 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the first known bird.

Several fossils of the creature, which has been dubbed Anchiornis huxleyi,
have been unearthed in northeastern China, Xing Xu reported September
25 at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The
strata that contained those feathered fossils were laid down as
sediments between 151 million and 161 million years ago, he and his
colleagues note online September 24 in Nature.

Pretty damn cool...

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] I agree. Damn cool it is.

Nifty!


I actually mistook the artist's rendition as a chicken. XD