"Dino with Bat Wings Discovered" Topic
8 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please don't make fun of others' membernames.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Prehistoric Message Board
Areas of InterestAncients
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Link
Featured Ruleset
Featured Showcase Article
Featured Workbench Article
Featured Profile ArticleThe Editor heads for Vicksburg...
|
Please sign in to your membership account, or, if you are not yet a member, please sign up for your free membership account.
Editor in Chief Bill | 29 Apr 2015 4:02 p.m. PST |
A bat-like dinosaur has been unearthed in China that had wings made of skin rather than feathers, showing there may have been different ways of flying before the emergence of birds.The tiny dinosaur discovered by a local farmer from Jurassic rocks in northeast China has been named Yi qi, which means "strange wing" in Mandarin. It belongs to a group of dinosaurs with long hands called scansoriopterygids that thrived 160 million years ago and so far are known only to be from China. Scansoriopterygids are closely related to small, primitive birds such as the Archaeopteryx, but there was previously no evidence that they could take to the air. "It highlights how complex the transition from dinosaur to birds is," said Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, who along with Zheng Xiaoting of Linyi University and several others described the finding in the journal Nature on Wednesday… link |
skippy0001 | 29 Apr 2015 4:22 p.m. PST |
|
Mako11 | 29 Apr 2015 5:17 p.m. PST |
Is that really new? I was under the impression most of the pteradons had wings like that as well. |
Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 29 Apr 2015 5:26 p.m. PST |
Pteranodons are not dinosaurs… also, anything out of China may be of dubious origin. |
Dave Crowell | 29 Apr 2015 6:50 p.m. PST |
China is a hot bed of new dinosaur discoveries. |
Great War Ace | 29 Apr 2015 8:17 p.m. PST |
@punk: They're not? When I was a kid I always got pterodactyls in my dinosaur toy sets. What are they, then?… |
Wolfshanza | 29 Apr 2015 11:38 p.m. PST |
Nope, they are flying reptiles. Not in the dino family. The plesiosaurs and such weren't dinos either. They were marine reptiles. One of the cooler critters sold with dinos is the Dimetrodon. A reptile that dissapeared in the massive die off that allowed dinos their ascendancy. Gotta remember that there were lizards, snakes, turtles and crocs living alongside the dinos :) Yeah, ah'm kind of a dino freak :) Paul |
Double W | 30 Apr 2015 1:02 p.m. PST |
Here's a handy illustration of what is and isn't a dinosaur:
Not listed: Dimetrodon, a big sail-backed reptile that actually was an early relative of mammals. |
|