A new species of dinosaur with bat-like wings has been discovered in China, shedding light on the origin of flight and how dinosaurs evolved into birds
The dinosaur's fossilized remains were found in Liaoning, in northeast China, in 2017 and at first they confused Min Wang, a Chinese paleontologist and lead author of a study published this week describing the new dinosaur. It's called Ambopteryx longibrachium."It was nothing like a bird. Nothing like a dinosaur," Wang said. But further study showed that it was in fact a tiny therapod dinosaur with unique forelimbs and membranous wings.
The most important feature is that it doesn't have flight muscle -- the sternum -- that would have allowed it to flap its wings." Both the Yiqi and Ambopteryx belong to a small family of dinosaurs called scansoriopterygids.China has been at the forefront of many of the latest dinosaur discoveries, particularly of feathered fossils that have shown a direct link between dinosaurs and birds.
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