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, China ...

Apr 29, 2015 · The 163-million-year-old dinosaur was about the size of a sparrow and was covered in fluffy feathers. But unlike previous fossil dinosaurs with aerodynamic appendages, Yi has thin rods of bone...

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 …

Dec 10, 2023 · Yi, a unique dinosaur genus, was unearthed in the Jurassic rock beds of China and stands out for its bat-like wings. This finding not only added a new species to the dinosaur clade but also shed light on the diversity of prehistoric life.

Ambopteryx (meaning "both wing") is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic of China. It is the second dinosaur to be found with both feathers and bat-like membranous wings. Yi, the first such dinosaur, was described in 2015 and is the sister taxon to Ambopteryx.

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.

Discovered by a farmer in rural China in 2007 and named Yi qi (“strange wing” in Mandarin) by researchers, it is the first dinosaur with strong evidence for having a skin membrane for a wing, similar to a bat or flying squirrel.

In full, it is Yi qi, which comes from the Mandarin for “strange wing” and can be roughly butchered as “ee chee”. The name hints at this pigeon-sized animal’s most remarkable feature.

Sep 14, 2012 · 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 ...

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 …