Interesting article and a good read, although I’m wondering how many people will skip over this line from the article and just focus on the headline;
“The Chinese scientists acknowledge they have only weak evidence to support their proposal, which hinges on including a newly recognized dinosaur.”
Chicoms have evolved into chicaps and chiscis
An evolutionary worldview is one of the base tenets of communism, so the Chinese scientists had reason to fudge in favor of said worldview.