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Earliest feathered dinosaur fossil found in China
According to Nature of October 1, Chinese researchers have unearthed the fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings in northeastern China, which is regarded as a missing link in dinosaurs' evolution into birds.
About the size of a chicken, the fossil's a total body length is less than 50cm (20 inches) and a skull is about 6cm long.
The well-preserved fossil of the "Anchiornis Huxleyi" roamed the earth some 160 million years ago, in a geological formation in China's northeastern Liaoning province.
It is believed that the fossil is the oldest bird-like dinosaur reported so far, and older than Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird.
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