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 China’s Feathered Dinosaurs Exhibition

China’s Feathered Dinosaurs

Sinosauropteryx
(juvenile specimen)
detail

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 These early Cretaceous fossils reveal three different stages in the evolution of theshoulders and forelimbs
of theropod dinosaurs and provide crucial evidence for how grasping armstransformed into flying wings.

Scientific study of these specimens was under the leadership of Dr. Ji Qiang of the National Geological
Museum of China, Beijing, where the fossils will be maintained on their return to China. He has supervised
much of the fossil recovery work.


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