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Re:World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered by tokenadult on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @09:03AM (#8041771)
Dinosaurs are part of the tetrapod clade, so I never expected "four-winged" to mean anything other than that the hind limbs and forelimbs are both feathered and used for flight. That's what the artist's conception based on the discovered fossils shows.
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Re:World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered by bane on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @09:15AM (#8041823)
Oh wow. I think I need more coffee. The first few times I looked at the artist's rendering, I swear I thought it was a 4 winged, two legged animal. But you're right, they rendered it as a tetrapod.
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Re:World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered by chton on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:06AM (#8042378)
The drawing is very confusing. It looks as if the back wings are just obscuring clawed legs rather than being the legs themselves. I had exactly the same thought as you and came here to comment the same thing.
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