Another well-known Chinese dinosaur discovery Xu worked on was the unearthing of the earliest known fossil of a feathered dinosaur, the Anchiornis huxleyi, in Liaoning in 2009. The finding is ...
The first birds appeared roughly 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, evolving from small feathered dinosaurs. The two newly identified species belonged to the enantiornithines ...