Four-Winged Dinosaur Relative of Velociraptor Found Hunting Primitive Birds

In the layered sediments of northwestern China's Changma basin, paleontologists have named a new predator — Jian changmaensis — a four-winged, feathered dinosaur that once hunted the primitive birds whose fossils had long dominated this site. The discovery, published in the Annals of Carnegie Museum, is not merely a taxonomic addition but a revelation about the pressures that forged survival: the birds that outlasted the Cretaceous extinction did so in a world where gliding ambush predators stalked them from the canopy. In recovering the hunter alongside its prey, science recovers something ol