Yi is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. Its only species, Yi qi ( Mandarin pronunciation: [î tɕʰǐ] ; from Chinese : 翼 ; pinyin : yì ; lit. 'wing' and 奇 ; qí ; 'strange'), is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult individual found in Middle or Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Hebei ...

2015年4月29日 · Named Yi qi, the tiny animal, from 160 million-year-old sediments in China, has an unusual assortment of stiff filamentous feathers and also two long bony elements attached to the wrists, unlike...

2015年4月29日 · Bat-like Yi qi is the flying dinosaur this forest deserves. Dinostar Co. Ltd. After over a century and a half of discovery, you'd think dinosaurs would start getting a little mundane....

2015年4月29日 · The dinosaur, named Yi qi, is a member of the unusual group of theropod (carnivorous) dinosaurs called Scansoriopterygidae 5 .

Yi is a genus of climbing and gliding dinosaurs from the Jurassic of China. Its only species, Yi qi [1] is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult found in middle or late Jurassicof Hebei, China. It lived about 160 million years ago. Yi was a small, possibly tree-dwelling animal.

Physical Description: Yi was a small proto-bird, distinctive for its truly weird appearance. Weighing about 280 grams, with a wingspan of about 60 centimeters. It had a short, blunt skull, with a very rounded front of its mouth. The front teeth were angled forward out of the mouth, giving it a slightly bucktoothed appearance.

2012年9月14日 · Yi is certainly one of the more bizarre dinosaurs that were named in‭ ‬2015.‭ ‬In fact this is reflected in the full type species name of Yi qi which translates to English as‭ ‘‬strange wing‭’‬.‭ ‬This is a reference to how the hands of Yi not only had elongated fingers,‭ ‬but how there also seems to have been a ...

2015年4月30日 · A team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, has discovered a bizarre new theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Middle-Upper Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. Artist’s concept of Yi qi. Image credit: Dinostar.

Yi is one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever discovered. It's a Scansoriopterygid, a small feathered tree-dwelling dinosaur with long fingers. Scansoriopterygids were thought to use their long fingers to pick insects out of trees like the aye-aye. And then along came Yi.

Yi qi is the only known species in a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of China. Yi qi (from Chinese: 翼; pinyin: yì; literally: "wing" and 奇; qí; "strange") is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult individual found in the Middle or Late Jurassic of Hebei...