It was a stunning discovery, which broke a neat divide between two styles of prehistoric flight. The dinosaurs took to the skies by transforming insulating fuzz into elegant, flattened feathers, and eventually giving rise to birds. The pterosaurs—often bundled together with dinosaurs, but actually a very different kind of reptile—did so by lengthening their fingers to support membranes, creating a style of wing that bats later reinvented. But Yi straddled both worlds. It was a dinosaur that independently evolved the leathery wings of pterosaurs, and covered their leading edges with fuzzy proto-feathers.
I'd love to find whoever looked at the spinosaurus skeleton and said "oh this sucker must have had a big fin on its back" and show them a bison skeleton just to see what crazy shit they'd make it look like pic.twitter.com/6aWV1CT4Si— mike🌵black (@kurtruslfanclub) April 29, 2019
“I mean think about it, Jon Gosselin’s skeleton is not that different from your skeleton!” -@thatblasiangirl arguing that we don’t REALLY know what dinosaurs look like— Christina Grace (@C_GraceT) May 9, 2019