A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

Xing Xu (), Kebai Wang, Ke Zhang, Qingyu Ma, Lida Xing, Corwin Sullivan, Dongyu Hu, Shuqing Cheng and Shuo Wang
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Xing Xu: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Kebai Wang: Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum, Zhucheng
Ke Zhang: School of the Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, 28 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China
Qingyu Ma: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Lida Xing: University of Alberta, 11145 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
Corwin Sullivan: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
Dongyu Hu: Liaoning Paleontological Museum, Shenyang Normal University, 253 North Huanghe Street, Shenyang 110034, China
Shuqing Cheng: Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum, Zhucheng
Shuo Wang: Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7392, 92-95

Abstract: The discovery of a new species of Tyrannosaurus relative from the Early Cretaceous of China, some 125 million years old—the largest feathered creature known, living or extinct—has implications for early feather evolution.

Date: 2012
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