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 WASHINGTON—Two fossil species with distinctive feather imprints and many dinosaur
features were unveiled at a news briefing at the National Geographic
Society. Also on display was an artist’s reconstruction of one of the
creatures.
The two animals were discovered in the rich fossil beds of China’s Liaoning
Province, the source of other major discoveries in recent years. More than
120 million years old, they add considerable weight to support the thinking
of most paleontologists today: Birds are dinosaurs.
The discoveries are reported in the July NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, and
the animals are described in the June 25 issue of Nature in an article by Ji
Qiang and Ji Shuan of China, Philip Currie of Canada and Mark Norell of the
United States.
The two new species will be on display as part of a collection of fossils
from Liaoning at the National Geographic Society’s Explorers Hall museum in
Washington, D.C. from June 24 through July 26, 1998.
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Don’t miss our feature Dinosaur Eggs and our May 1997 press event, Birdlike Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina, for related information.
Read an interview by nationalgeographic.com’s Ted Chamberlain with paleontologist Ji Qiang.
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Ji Qiang, National Geological Museum, China
Philip Currie, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta
Mark Norell, American Museum of Natural History, New York |
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Tuesday, June 23, 1998, 10:30 a.m. ET
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