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4-Winged Dinosaur Fossil Found

Posted by timothy on from the hunted-to-extinction dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists in China say they have found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings that it probably used for gliding, a find they say strengthens the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. See the story on CNN or BBC with a cool rendering of what it possibly looked like or at NYTimes (yadda)."

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  1. take this with a grain of salt by davejenkins · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There was an excellent documentary on the BBC last summer that showed the elaborate lengths to which the Chinese fraud industry will go to fake a winged fossil.

    The fraud detailed in the show fooled even National Geographic, which had spent thousands on research, documentation, and 'verification' by palaentologists.

    I bet $20 this one turns out to be a fake.

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  2. Reg-free link by imag0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fly over here, you bastards and get your reg-free link

    Four winged freaks!

  3. Link to BBC story about earlier fake by MrMickS · · Score: 5, Informative

    The BBC has a story about an earlier chinese fake here or here for text browsers.

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