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Dinosaur up in the air

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A new feathered dinosaur from China, belonging to an obscure and strange carnivorous group, bears a seemingly bony wrist structure that may have had a role in flight. See Letter p.70

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Figure 1: The three known members of the Scansoriopterygidae.

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  1. Kevin Padian is in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,

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Padian, K. Dinosaur up in the air. Nature 521, 40–41 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14392

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