A FOUR-WINGED dinosaur discovered in January is poised to revolutionise our ideas of how birds took to the sky.
A stunning set of six fossils revealed a small dinosaur with flight feathers covering its legs, as well as its tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never seen before. Palaeontologists are convinced this proto-bird would have been able to fly, and hail its discovery as being potentially as important as that of Archaeopteryx.
The four-winged flyer, dubbed Microraptor gui, was discovered in China and lived around 130 million years ago. Particularly baffling is that the feathers at the…
