So they say, 125 mya.
The 6ft 6in (2m) creature was almost perfectly preserved in limestone, thanks to a volcanic eruption that had buried it in north-east China.
And the 125-million year-old fossil suggests many other dinosaurs, including velociraptors, would have looked like “big, fluffy killer birds”.
But it is unlikely that it could fly.
note also:
There are [museum] storerooms full of new dinosaur fossils that have never been studied before.
And not on the open market as well?
A newly identified species of feathered dinosaur is the largest ever discovered to have a well-preserved set of bird-like wings, a study suggests.
Palaeontologists working in China unearthed the fossil remains of the winged dinosaur – a close cousin of the Velociraptor made famous by the Jurassic Park films.
Not for the fainthearted:
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Good thing the Big Fluffy Birds from Hell left no ancestors whew. Wiped right of the planet boom. Also good that Small Fluffy Birds from Heaven survived. Went forth and multiplied.
Wonder if the feathered raptor tasted like chicken….
The stories generated by unconstrained imagination combined with computer graphics are not only amazing, they’re also entertaining. But are they science? Only to those predisposed to believe the stories.
Analysis of the fossil evidence is science, Jorge. Paleontologists are having a field day. But the “science” of how feathers were created is questionable. NS & RM lol.
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