New Fossil Shows Birds Weren’t the Only Dinosaurs to Evolve Flight

新化石显示,鸟类并非唯一进化出飞行的恐龙

New Scientist Podcasts

2026-10-02

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Episode 403 A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered - and it looks like a supercharged magpie with teeth. Fossil evidence and an artist’s reconstruction show the dinosaur looks remarkably like a bird - yet it’s not actually an ancestor of modern birds. Over 100 million years old, Norellraptor barsboldi is named after two famous palaeontologists - one of whom taught palaeontologist Steve Brusatte. Steve is the author of The Story of Birds and joins the team to discuss this incredible finding, which shows flight may have evolved at least two separate times. He also explains how dinosaurs didn’t go extinct - but still roam among us today. On the panel are Rowan Hooper and Penny Sarchet. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • We all know that birds are dinosaurs, right?

  • Birds are dinosaurs, yes,

  • but it still feels new to me because this wasn't the mainstream thing that I learned as a kid.

  • Not what we were told.

  • No, it's not what we were told.

  • It all died out 66 million years ago, but birds actually evolved from things like Velociraptor that we all know of.

  • They've got dinosaur DNA.

  • Birds are dinosaurs.

  • Yeah, and even though this does really feel like a modern revelation,

  • it was actually suggested a long time ago by biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, also known as Darwin's bulldog.

  • That was back in the 1870s.