Ever since the release of the movie Jurassic Park, the Velociraptor has been in tough competition with the Tyrannosaurs rex for the most feared and dangerous dinosaur of all time. Its razor-sharp teeth, lighting speed and purported ruthless nature made it an ideal predator across the lands that dinosaurs roamed. Now scientists have discovered fossils that indicate that some members of the raptor family may have terrorized the skies as well. While working in the Chinese province of Liaoning near the border of North Korea in 2012, researchers from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles found the fossilized remains of Changyuraptor yangi — a relative of the mighty Velociraptor that had the longest feathers of any known dinosaur, and not two, but four wings. The light creature, just four feet long and nine pounds heavy, lived about 125 million years ago.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 05:53:02 +0000
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