New gliding dinosaur fossil from China may have preyed on early Cretaceous birds
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Aaron Tremper
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A newly described gliding dinosaur species, Jianchangmaensis, discovered in northwestern China, may have been a predator of early Cretaceous birds. The fossil's arm and shoulder bones suggest gliding capabilities, potentially solving a 120-million-year-old mystery about what preyed on ancient birds like Gansus yumenensus. The discovery sheds light on the ecological interactions between early birds and their dinosaur contemporaries.
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· 2 pulledThe arm and shoulder bones of a gliding dinosaur might have just revealed the culprit behind a gruesome whodunit that took place some 120 million years ago.
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed more than a hundred prehistoric b
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