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New Chinese fossil reveals feathery dinosaur species, advances understanding of dinosaur-bird flight evolution
A newly discovered Chinese fossil of an undiscovered dinosaur species with feathery limbs contributes to ongoing debates about multiple origins of flight and the dinosaur-bird evolutionary transition.
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These discoveries refine understanding of the evolutionary tree leading to modern birds and clarify which lineages survived the mass extinction 66 million years ago, reshaping paleontology models.
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