The scientists found that the size of the little dinosaur was probably no more than the size of a pigeon today, and weight was 380 grams, and covered with feathers, the researchers say that this finding illustrates several airplane experiences that occurred during the eras of the evolution of life on Earth, even appeared in the end, today's birds.
Description China scholars this dinosaur that of the strangest plane creatures that have been discovered at all, has been dubbed "Yi Che" the language of Mandarin means "strange wing", and said he lived about 160 million years ago during the Jurassic middle age (age of the dinosaurs), any about 10 million years old fossil of the first known bird before, which she estimated at 150 million years old.
Farms have been found for the first time on the Little Bird dinosaur fossil in this "Hebei" province of China, and the dinosaur-mentioned group of monsters theropod (carnivorous dinosaurs mostly), which are called Scansoriopterygidae.
This dinosaur is a cousin of the birds, but with a membrane wings of the skin, such as those that existed in the plane of extinct reptiles, such as pterosaurs that lived at the same time, and bats that emerged after more than 100 million years old.
Each wing extends from 3 fingers have claws, and its greatness such as bars extending from the wrist, fingers and one was much longer than the other fingers, and the feathers, which resides around the head and neck and limbs is more like hair than feathers of birds we know today.
This dinosaur is a cousin of the birds, but with a membrane wings of the skin, such as those that existed in the plane of extinct reptiles, such as pterosaurs that lived at the same time, and bats that emerged after more than 100 million years old.
Each wing extends from 3 fingers have claws, and its greatness such as bars extending from the wrist, fingers and one was much longer than the other fingers, and the feathers, which resides around the head and neck and limbs is more like hair than feathers of birds we know today.
Said paleontologist "Corwin Sullivan" at the Institute of Science vertebrate fossils in Beijing: "It's hard to imagine how he can move his wings with great effect, because the greatness that is similar to the bars is supposed to be impractical, so our guess is that the dinosaur Yi Chi, was battered like a bat or maybe it moves such as the flying squirrel. "