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Microraptor Fossil

Caption: This is a fossilized Microraptor specimen from the Beijing Museum of Natural History. Microraptor was a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago.

Credit: (AMNH/M. Ellison)

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