Looks like chicken? New feathered dinosaur discovered in China
We may not know how it tasted, but it certainly looked like a chicken.
A new species of feathered dinosaur — the earliest known bird ancestor — was recently discovered by a team of paleontologists in Lioaning, China.
What they found there was a remarkably well-preserved, 125-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of the three-foot long animal, which has been named Jianianhualong tengi.
Jianianhualong tengi is a troodontid dinosaur — one of the bird-like dinosaurs that are the closest relatives to modern-day birds.
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An artist’s conception of a new dinosaur species, Jianianhualong tengi. (Photo: Julius T. Csotonyi 2017 / Xu, Currie, Pittman et al. 2017)
An artist’s conception of a new dinosaur species, Jianianhualong tengi. (Photo: Julius T. Csotonyi 2017 / Xu, Currie, Pittman et al. 2017)
An artist’s conception of a new dinosaur species, Jianianhualong tengi. (Photo: Julius T. Csotonyi 2017 / Xu, Currie, Pittman et al. 2017)
An artist’s conception of a new dinosaur species, Jianianhualong tengi. (Photo: Julius T. Csotonyi 2017 / Xu, Currie, Pittman et al. 2017)