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China introduced many things to the world—paper, fireworks, gunpowder, zippers, but it’s also in China’s soils that the greatest scientific advancement in paleontology was discovered—that dinosaurs became birds.
China has produced more feathered or gliding dinosaurs, or those that share intimate similarities with flightless birds like emu, than any other country, including this one: a new 150-million-year-old avialan theropod found in Zhenghe County in Fujian Province.
Chinese scientists say the previously unknown species was a “high-speed runner” who lived in a “swamp-like” environment during the Jurassic Period.
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China has produced more feathered or gliding dinosaurs, or those that share intimate similarities with flightless birds like emu, than any other country, including this one: a new 150-million-year-old avialan theropod found in Zhenghe County in Fujian Province.
Chinese scientists say the previously unknown species was a “high-speed runner” who lived in a “swamp-like” environment during the Jurassic Period.
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A Kind of Cretaceous Crane Enters Fossil Record as Long-Legged Wading Dinosaur Found in China
Scientists say the previously unknown species was a "high-speed runner" who lived in a "swamp-like" environment during the Jurassic Period.
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