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LOS ANGELES: The Dinosaur Institute of Natural History Museum shows a newly discovered feathered dinosaur, the Changyuraptor Yangi. — AFP |
PARIS: The fossil of a strange dinosaur with four feathery wing-like appendages, unearthed in China, could provide clues to the origins of birds, scientists said on Tuesday.
Unearthed at a dinos’ graveyard in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the astonishingly-preserved fossil is that of a 125-million-year-old predator the size of a small but slim turkey.
Dubbed Changyuraptor yangi, the creature sports a full set of feathers over its entire body, which measured 1.3 metres from its beak to the tip of its super-long tail.
“At a foot (30 centimetres) in length, the amazing tail feathers of Changyuraptor
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