Steve Brusatte wonders why they had wings

Polly Cracker
    Paleontologist Steve Brusatte  has unrecovered a feathered dinosaur poodle from hell and this was really a dinosaur that looked like a bird. According to Brusatte Zhenyuanlong used its wings for display the way a peacock uses its tail feathers to attract mates and intimidate rivals. Another possibility is using the wings to brood eggs in the nest, Brusatte said. This dinosaur was no peacock though and had sharp teeth and as professor Steve Brusatte describes would be a poodle from hell. This is another new dinosaur discovered in China and perhaps one day people will attempt to bring this thing back for display Brusatte is one of the leading new fresh faces in planetology and should receive the acclaim that a Paul Sereno often gets through the media. The discovery of this dinosaur blurs the line between birds and dinosaurs though this dinosaur couldn't fly because it hadn't evolved the limb powerful enough. What purpose those lush feathers and flightless wings served is unclear. So, too, is why wings evolved. “Did they evolve for flight, or did they first develop for something else, and were later co-opted to be used as an airfoil?” Brusatte wrote. “We don’t know the answer yet, but since new fossils of bird-like dinosaurs are being found at an incredible rate, maybe we’ll have it solved by the time the next Jurassic Park comes out.” for us modern birds. Brusatte though will continue to investigate why this creature had limbs.