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The Mary Sue
Terrina Jairaj

Paleontologists Just Identified New Four-Winged Predators That Dominated the Canopy and Forced Ancient Birds to Fear the Trees

Paleontologists just dropped a discovery that rewrites the rulebook on ancient predators. Meet Jian changmaensis, a newly identified four-winged dinosaur that ruled the treetops 120 million years ago and likely turned the canopy into a no-fly zone for early birds. According to CNN, this gliding hunter, unearthed in northwestern China’s Changma Basin, is the latest addition to the microraptor family.

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