[Rockhounds] Earliest-Known Winged Mammal Relatives Discovered In China

[Paul]

Earliest-Known Winged Mammal Relatives Discovered In China
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a prehistoric gliding mammal
Merrit Kennedy, The Two-way, August 9, 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/09/542078677/earliest-known-winged-mammal-relatives-discovered-in-china

First 'Winged' Mammals Lived Alongside Dinosaurs 160 Million
Years Ago, By Laura Geggel, Live Science, August 9, 2017
https://www.livescience.com/60091-first-ancient-gliding-mammals.html

The paper is:

Meng, Q.-J., D. M. Grossnickle, D. Liu, Y.-G. Zhang,    A. I. Neander,
Q. Ji, and Z.-X. Luo, 2017, New gliding mammaliaforms from the
Jurassic. Nature (doi:10.1038/nature23476 Received 23
October 2016 Accepted 12 July 2017 Published online 09 August 2017
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23476.html?foxtrotcallback=true

Yours,

Paul H.