The earliest rainbow-colored dinosaur with asymmetric flying feathers discovered in my country

(Reporter Liu Yong) Chinese scientists have discovered a new genus of dinosaurs closely related to birds-Giant Crest Rainbow Dragon

The specimens of the giant crest rainbow dragon are preserved on two opposite stone slabs.

The giant-crested rainbow dragon banana leaf-shaped tail fan, which is larger than the tail of the German Archaeopteryx, is eye-catching

According to Hu Dongyu, the most important discovery of the study is the asymmetry of the pinnaes on both sides of the feather axis of the giant crest rainbow dragon tail feather axis-the pinna on the outer side of the tail fan is narrow, and the pinna on the inner side of the tail fan is wide

Scientists studied feathers and found that in the feathers of the head, neck, chest and tail base of the giant crest rainbow dragon, there is a flat cake-like pigment that has never been reported, and the rainbow color feather pigment of living birds and hummingbirds.