A newly discovered dinosaur has one of the most complex and well-preserved set of wings ever seen on a specimen of its size. Paleontologists while working in China have made the discovery. It has been named as Zhenyuanlong suni and is said to be the cousin of Velociraptor that lived around 125 million years ago.

The discovered dinosaur is part of the group known as raptors. Many smaller species in the group have been found to be having long forelimbs and feathered wings, which means that they at one time have flown.

But such was not the case with bigger species in the group, which have shorter forelimbs and were not suitable for flight. Paleontologists have also not found feathers on the bigger species. Researchers said the found set of wings indicate that other members of the family could have had feathers.

Study’s co-author Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences was of the view that though the bird is the closest cousin of Velociraptor, it looks like a bird.

“It's a dinosaur with huge wings made up of quill pen feathers, just like an eagle or a vulture. The movies have it wrong - this is what Velociraptor would have looked like too”, affirmed Steve.

Zhenyuanlong suni did not have proper wings for flying, but had feathers that were needed to get off the ground. It is the reason that researchers have been suspecting that it might have come after a flying ancestor.