This week, a relative of early birds that looks more like a bat.

To have this thing, have a feathered dinosaur with a wing membrane like a flying squirrel or something

is not something anyone would ever have expected to find.

And get your chef's hat on. We're heating up the computer chips of tomorrow.

It's basically cooking. You just want to put the right amount of component.

And we time it correctly.

Plus, wondering what to read this spring?

From genome metaphors to a call to action on climate,

we've wrapped up the best new books.

This is The Nature Podcast for April the 30th, 2015.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

Chinese paleontologist Xing Shu has found and named a lot of dinosaur species, probably more than any other living fossil hunter.

So when Shu is talking about a new discovery, and he says something like this.

This is really, really something for me, you know.

I always see the most unexpected discovery I have forever made.

You sit up and take notice.

He and his team have found a new dinosaur that's so strange,

they even put the word bizarre in the title of their paper.

It's a new species that's related to some of the earliest bird-like dinosaurs,

but it has one striking feature that they don't.

The immaculately preserved specimen, which the team have called Yi Qi,

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