4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx

Posted by timothy on Monday September 28, 2009 @12:12AM from the four-wings-perhaps-the-earliest-insult dept.

Wired reports on a find described September 24 in a note at Nature and the day after at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: a dinosaur fossil bearing true feathers on four limbs. The fossil was discovered in northeastern China, in strata believed to have been deposited between 151 million and 161 million years ago. If that estimate is correct, the newly discovered Anchiornis huxleyi is at least one million years older than the believed age of the more famous winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx.

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Re:PBS covered this... by Rogerborg · 2009-09-28 02:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Now, now, not so hasty. It's not really noteworthy until kdawson dupes it.

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Re:all you smarty pants scientists by palegray.net · 2009-09-28 02:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Good trolls incorporate an element of subtlety; this isn't anywhere near your best work, man :).

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