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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. fr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:PBS covered this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anchiornis huxleyi on belgian waffles with cool whip. mmm. *druel*

  3. Re:What's next? by gardyloo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened--the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.

  4. wow by chelroms · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is cool i thought only cabal online has this animal but this true... http://www.techandgizmo.com/

  5. Re:PBS covered this... by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  6. Re:all you smarty pants scientists by palegray.net · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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