A bizarre new dinosaur with bat-like wings has been discovered by a farmer in China and is now helping to shed new light on the evolution of flight.
中国的一名农民之前曾发现了一种长着蝙蝠翅膀的恐龙化石,现在有关该化石的研究将对动物飞行的演化等具有启示。
Palaeontologists in China say the impeccably preserved fossil belongs to a small dinosaur thought to have lived 160 million years ago.
中国的古生物学家称这块被完好保存的化石来自于一种生活在1.6亿年前的小型恐龙。
The strange-looking creature had small stiff feathers on its body and long finger-like bones extending from each wrist that were covered in a membrane like a bat’s wing.
这种外形奇特的生物身上有着小而短的僵硬羽毛,两只腕部各有一个棒状长骨,并覆盖着一层像蝙蝠翅膀的翼膜。
Scientists believe the dinosaur, which they have named Yi qi, meaning ‘strange wing’, may have glided or even flown through the air.
科学家们成这种生物为“奇翼龙,并认为它可以滑行甚至做短距离的飞行。
The discovery has provided new insight into how vertebrates first began to take to the air.
奇翼龙的发现对解释脊椎动物是如何开始飞向天空的具有重要意义。
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