{"id":158177,"date":"2026-09-30T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158177"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:06","slug":"4-winged-fossil-found-in-liaoning-challenges-single-origin-of-dinosaur-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158177","title":{"rendered":"4-winged fossil found in Liaoning challenges single origin of dinosaur flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have unveiled an exceptionally well-preserved 100-million-year-old fossil of a small, feathered dinosaur in northeastern China that could reshape our understanding of how dinosaurs took to the skies.<br \/>\nThe newly discovered species, named Norellraptor barsboldi, is a four-winged predatory dinosaur measuring 57cm (22 inches) long.<br \/>\nBelonging to the microraptorines \u2013 small dinosaurs with feathers and wings closely related to birds \u2013 the creature offers fresh evidence that flight evolved&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3369309\/4-winged-fossil-found-liaoning-challenges-single-origin-dinosaur-flight?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have unveiled an exceptionally well-preserved 100-million-year-old fossil of a small, feathered dinosaur in northeastern China that could reshape our understanding of how dinosaurs&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}