This dinosaur’s ride may have been a glide
Newly discovered species may have taken to the skies with wings akin to those of pterosaurs and flying squirrels
A dinosaur called Yi qi appears to have lifted a page from pterosaurs’ flight plan.
Protruding from each of the newly discovered dinosaur’s wrists was a weird rodlike bone that may have attached to a fleshy wing that helped the dinosaur glide or fly, researchers report April 29 in Nature.
“We’ve never seen anything like this in a dinosaur before,” says paleontologist Sarah Werning of Stony Brook University in New York. “It’s almost like this dinosaur was pretending to be a pterosaur.”