article_snippet.sent: The new dinosaur, named Yi qi (shown above in the artists reconstruction), had unusual bristle-like feathers and bat-like wings that were covered in a membrane.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists believe the dinosaur, which Scientists have named Yi qi, meaning ‘strange wing’, may have glided or even flown through the air.
article_snippet.sent: But unlike modern birds, Yi qi was found to have a strange extra  bone extending backwards from Chilesaurus diegosuarezi (illustrated) wrist, rather like an entirely separate group of animals that learned to fly - the bats.
article_snippet.sent: The fossil of The Yi qi fossil qi (above) was so well preserved that bristle-like feathers and the remains of its membrane wings could be seen around the bones.
article_snippet.sent: This close up of the skull of Yi qi, which weighed just 13 ounces (380g), show oval like feathers near the head .
article_snippet.sent: But Professor Xu said: 'We thought giving this animal a name meaning "strange wing" was appropriate, because no other bird or dinosaur has a wing of the same kind . '
article_snippet.sent: We don’t know if Yi qi was flapping, or gliding, or both, but it definitely evolved a wing that is unique in the context of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.'
article_snippet.sent: Professor Zheng Xiaoting, from Linyi University in Shandong who also took part in the study, said: 'Yi qi lived in the Jurassic, so it was a pioneer in the evolution of flight on the line to birds. '
article_snippet.sent: The diagrams above show how  the wing of Yi qi (a) compares to other winged tetrapods (b and c) and the wing of a bat (d), the wing of a pigeon (e), the wing of a pterosaur (f) and the wing of a Japanese flying squirrel (g) how  the wing of Yi qi (a) said: ‘