A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 521; no. 7550; pp. 70 - 73
• Main Authors: Xu, Xing, Zheng, Xiaoting, Sullivan, Corwin, Wang, Xiaoli, Xing, Lida, Wang, Yan, Zhang, Xiaomei, O’Connor, Jingmai K., Zhang, Fucheng, Pan, Yanhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 07.05.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/181/414; Animal feathers; Animals; Birds; Birds - classification; Bones; China; Dinosaurs; Dinosaurs - anatomy & histology; Dinosaurs - classification; Feathers - anatomy & histology; Fossils; Humanities and Social Sciences; Jurassic; letter; Morphology; multidisciplinary; Natural history; Paleontology; Phylogeny; Science; Theropoda; Wings (Animal); Wings, Animal - anatomy & histology; Wrist; China

A recently discovered fossil belonging to the Scansoriopterygidae, a group of bizarre dinosaurs closely related to birds, represents a new scansoriopterygid species and preserves evidence of a membranous aerodynamic surface very different from a classic avian wing. Taking flight by the wrist At the...