Malganis Knight of the Bleach
Join date : 2009-06-10
| Subject: Dino-bird with four wings found Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:16 pm | |
| 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... | |
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Sparrow Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 38 Location : West Peoria, IL
| Subject: Re: Dino-bird with four wings found Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:13 am | |
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rae Contributor
Join date : 2009-06-10 Location : computer chair
| Subject: Re: Dino-bird with four wings found Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:44 pm | |
| Nifty!
I actually mistook the artist's rendition as a chicken. XD | |
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