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Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. And today we'll be talking about acrocanthosaurus, etochensis, as well as some dinosaur news.

So first in the news is a article that was published in the journal Scientific Reports by

Jun Chang Liu and Stephen Broussat titled A Large Short-armed Winged Dromiosaurid Dinosauria Theropada from the early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution.

So this discovery is from the early Cretaceous like the title suggests, and it was found in the Liaoning province in northeastern China.

So this area is already known from five other Dromiosaurids,

which the author point out is currently believed to be the group most closely related to modern birds.

They named the new species Genuong Long Sunni,

and it was originally discovered by a farmer, but most of the name

comes from Mr. Genuon's son, who secured the specimen for the study and for the museum that he

works for.

The long part of the name, the end in the Genuon Long, comes from the Chinese word for dragon,

so that's pretty cool.

The authors continually refer to this finding as a large-bodied and short-armed dromyasaurid,

which differs from other dromeasaurids, which typically had nearly even four in hind limbs.

Genuon Long also appeared to have a lot of veined feathers, which is kind of like the quill feathers that you'd expect to see on a bird, except on its legs where it looked a little bit fuzzier.

I know that's not really scientific, but we sometimes talk about dino fuzz, and that's kind of what it appears to have had down there.

Author Stephen Broussat said,

quote,

I don't think we ever thought we would find a fairly large Dromiosaurid

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