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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. plus 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    (7000+1400+700)*4 of OpenBSD. How and h3lp us! and easy` - only

  2. Fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The earth is only 6000 years old. This is yet another hoax by you jerk heathens. Rush told me so.

  3. Devil's Advocate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The fact that birds evolved from dinosaurs is irrefutable

    1) theory
    2) You never heard of the bible, did you? Since you can't prove your "theory" of evolution, you must accept that the bible proposes a possible alternative . . . that is, unless you're like most slashdotters - ignorant.