China’s ancient flying dinosaurs were more like birds than first thought, study says

If you were to glance up at tree canopies 120 million years ago in what is now northeastern China, you might have caught sight of a birdlike creature about the size of a crow.

Microraptors were a type of flying dinosaur that had four primitive feathered wings and lived during the early Cretaceous period. They used their feet to hunt prey, much like hawks do today.