Second Bat-Winged Dinosaur Found

In the year 2007, a farmer came across a very interesting fossil. Fast forward to 2015, this fossil was discovered to be a dinosaur who can climb really well, and it also had some kind of wing similar to flying squirrels, and named it Yi qi (meaning, “strange wing”).

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In 2017, in the village of Wubaiding, northeastern China, another farmer stumbled across another fossil. When Min Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences saw this, he became sure of one thing: this was another bat-winged dinosaur.

Studying the beautifully preserved and nigh-complete skeleton, Wang took note of the creature’s sparrow-size body, the quill-like feathers on its neck, and its stubby tail. But when he looked more closely at the left arm, he saw a thin bone coming down from its wrist—a rod as long as the entire forearm, but not jointed like a finger. “I shouted, and my heartbeat elevated,” he says.

Hold your arm out to the side, palm facing forward. Imagine a bony rod extending downward from your wrist. Now imagine that rod supports a membrane that stretches from your fingertips to your side. That’s how Wang saw his new dinosaur—a feathered animal with a pair of bat-like wings. He named it Ambopteryx longibranchium, from the Latin for “both wings, long upper arm.”

More details of this discovery at The Atlantic.

(Image Credit: Chung-Tat Cheung)

Source: neatorama

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