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Four-winged dinosaur fossil discovery challenges single origin of flight

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Paleontologists have discovered a new four-winged predatory dinosaur species, Norellraptor barsboldi, in China's Liaoning province. This 57cm-long creature, belonging to the microraptorines group, provides evidence that flight evolved independently in different dinosaur lineages. The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that the development of flight in dinosaurs was not a single, unified process but rather occurred through multiple, independent evolutionary paths within the Paraves group. AI

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Four-winged dinosaur fossil discovery challenges single origin of flight

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Holly Chik ·

    4-winged fossil found in Liaoning challenges single origin of dinosaur flight

    Scientists have unveiled an exceptionally well-preserved 100-million-year-old fossil of a small, feathered dinosaur in northeastern China that could reshape our understanding of how dinosaurs took to the skies. The newly discovered species, named Norellraptor barsboldi, is a four…

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