Dinosaurs are a general term for the ancestors of lizards and ornithopods and birds, and humans have a long history of discovering dinosaur fossils, but it was not until the 19th century that people really understood this behemoth. Although humans have also found the skeleton of this huge creature in the ground before, they always think that it is just a lizard-like reptile, so in the Latin name, dinosaurs are also called "scary lizards".
There have also been many dinosaur fossils found in China, in the watermelon video creator [science and technology Yuan Lanfeng] video [Americans smuggled Chinese fake fossils, even issued a paper], I first learned about the "little robber" dinosaur. Interested friends can go to the watermelon video search to watch for more details.
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Little Robber Dragon, as the name suggests, its biggest feature is small. It is understood that the small raptor found in China is one of the smallest dinosaurs in the world known to mankind. The total length of these dinosaurs is only sixty or seventy centimeters, and some are only more than fifty centimeters, about the size of a pigeon. They have black feathers all over their bodies, and this feather will show different colors in the sunlight, if there is really a "colorful black" in this world, it should be the color of the feathers of the little robber.
Although the baby thief had wings and feathers, it was not a pterosaur species and belonged to the chirosaur family. The baby thief had two pairs of wings, the forelimbs and the hind limbs. According to zoologists, this small chilong may live in trees like birds, usually gliding between trees, and likes to prey on small fish in lakes.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the significance of the study of small raptors</h1>
Due to the special wing structure of The Little Raptor, zoologists began to study its developmental relationship with modern birds. As mentioned earlier, the little raptor had two pairs of flying wings, that is, four-winged chilts, and usually glided between trees, which raised the question of the origin of the flight ability of modern birds.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the last century, scientists have begun to study whether there is a four-wing stage in the development history of modern birds. The feet of the little raptor had unique long feathers, which were not suitable for ground activities, so the lifestyle of the little raptor should be similar to that of modern birds, inhabiting trees. In fact, not only the small robbers, in the history of paleontological development, Archaeopteryx, other feathered dinosaurs and so on have unique long-legged feathers. Therefore, some experts speculate that the flight patterns of modern birds may also have evolved from the four wings.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the U.S. smuggling of fake fossils</h1>
In fact, the name of the "little robber" is controversial, and this controversy has also led to a "us smuggling of fake fossils incident".
In November 1999, National Geographic magazine published an article titled "Did Tyrannosaurus have feathers?" " article. The article shows a strange fossil, the fossil of the animal is not large, with the tail of a dinosaur and the wings of a bird, the article named it "Liaoning Ancient Robber Bird". Soon after, Xu Xing, a doctor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in China, saw this article, how to see how to think that this fossil was exactly the same as the fossil tail of the feathered dinosaur he was studying, so Xu Xing contacted the American "Geography Magazine", and the Americans found that the fossils they smuggled were fake fossils spliced together from swallow birds and small robber dragon fossils.
Soon, American Geographic held a press conference to admit its mistake to the public and return the fake fossil of the so-called "ancient bird" to China.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
The discovery of The Little Raptor is of great significance to the study of the history of the development of modern birds. In the video of the watermelon video creator [Yuan Lanfeng of Science and Technology] [Americans smuggling Fake Chinese fossils and even issuing a paper], we learned a lot about the "little thief dragon". A small species of Chilong found in Liaoning Province, China, 10 complete fossils have been unearthed today. In this video, we can learn more about the "American smuggling of fake fossils" incident. Interested friends can search for [American smuggled fake fossils] in the watermelon video to see what [Yuan Lanfeng, a scientific and technological yuan], said!