MrDarwin

Who writes these headlines, anyway?

Hunters Claim to Find 4-Winged Dinosaur

This should generate some interesting discussion. It will be interesting to see pictures.

Edited to add links to two more articles, both of which have pictures:

Fossil boosts trees-down start for flight

Four-winged dinosaur makes feathers fly

And edited one last time, to add a link to the original article itself (I'm not sure if I can view the article because it's public, or because my museum has a site license to access the journal):

Four-winged dinosaurs from China

beastmaster

According to the New York Times, the animal was really about the size of a pigeon plus a 2 foot long tail:

Edited to fix link

Edited again to remove link cuz I can't fucxking get it to work

Valentine Pontifex

Link is broken. It appears to my that you pasted only a part of the URL.

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Mr. Darwin,

I see the full text of that Nature article. I am fairly sure that Cox Cable has not bought a site license, so it is -- for now -- free for all.

Nic Tamzek

I quote Jonathan Wells:

"Just another feathered dinosaur"

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Valentine Pontifex

I suppose this could be called progress.

Now we can ask him if a feathered reptile in the group supposed by have given rise to birds is not a transitional form, what would be.


Do you have a URL for his remarks?

Valentine Pontifex

Here is another link:

National Geographic Story

seesaw

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I thought that fossils like this have been found before? Or at least something like them.

Valentine Pontifex

You are correct. Indeed in the last few years China has provided a number of them. One of the better ones can be seen here.

Valentine Pontifex

It appears that the entire issue of Nature in question has free access to everyone at the current time.

There is a "News and View" commentary on the latest dinobird here.

Here is a cladogram from that article:

Doubting Didymus

Hundreds. This one is of particular interest because its four winged limbs casts a slightly different light on the evolution of flight.