The dinosaur, originally discovered 10 years ago in the China's Hebei province, measured 63 centimeters and weighed around 230 grams, according to a report in Nature. Most interestingly, though, are the dinosaurs wings, which resemble those of a bat more than those of birds and bird-like dinosaurs like the archaeopteryx.
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Called Yi qi, which means "strange wing" in Chinese, was a "failed experiment," paleontologist Xu Xing told CNN.
Xu said that it's unclear from the fossil evidence if the dinosaur flapped its wings or merely used them for gliding, like a modern flying squirrel. Xu said over the last 3 decades, "there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs."