Earliest-Known Winged Mammal Relatives Discovered In China
These 160-million-year-old fossils are the oldest known examples of mammal relatives with the ability to glide. They're from an extinct lineage with no relationship to modern gliders.
When you think about the Jurassic Period, you probably think of massive, lumbering dinosaurs.
But now scientists say there were also gliders — early relatives of mammals, akin to today's flying squirrels – whizzing through the trees.
Fossils of two glider species, found in the Tiaojishan Formation in northeastern China,
