Four-winged dinosaurs from China

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关键词: EARLY EVOLUTION;    ORIGIN;    BIRD;    ARCHAEOPTERYX;    PALEONTOLOGY;    FEATHERS;    FLIGHT;   

DOI  :  10.1038/nature01342

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

Although the dinosaurian hypothesis of bird origins is widely accepted, debate remains about how the ancestor of birds first learned to fly. Here we provide new evidence suggesting that basal dromaeosaurid dinosaurs were four-winged animals and probably could glide, representing an intermediate stage towards the active, flapping-flight stage. The new discovery conforms to the predictions of early hypotheses that proavians passed through a tetrapteryx stage.

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