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2008-11-20TANGYUANKAI

Beijing Review 2008年46期

TANG YUAN KAI

Anewly discovered dinosaur fos- sil has been on display in the Paleozoological Museum of China since October 25. The fossil of a small maniraptoran dinosaur, named "Epidexipteryx hui," was discovered last year by Chinese scientists in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The fossil shed new light on the transition from dino-saur to bird.