![]() ![]() So far they have been classified into five species groups, some of them containing just one species. All the specimens belonging to that clave have been found in northeastern China, in Liaoning province. In a paper published in Nature, researchers Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh and Junchang Lu from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences detail the find, explaining it belonged to the dromaeosaurids, a clave of very close bird relatives including the Velociraptor – a species that gained notoriety with the Jurassic Park film series. The fossil was discovered accidentally by a farmer in northeastern China, just like another recent discovery, this time of a bat-like dinosaur, in the same part of the country. Named Zhenyuanlong by the researchers who examined it, the dinosaur was a close relative of the Velociraptor and lived around 125 million years ago. The animal was more than five feet long, had unusually short arms, huge wings, impressive talons, and its whole body was covered with thick layers of colourful feathers. A remarkably well preserved fossil of a feathered dinosaur, the largest found to date, has been discovered in China, providing scientists with invaluable evidence of dinosaurs’ evolution into birds.
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