Friday, March 27, 2015

SIBERIAN DISCOVERY SUGGESTS ALMOST ALL DINOSAURS WERE FEATHERED


In a discovery reported last year by an international team in the journal Science , the new dinosaur species, Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus suggests that feathers were all in the family. That's because the newly unearthed 4.5- foot -long (1.5 meter) two-legged runner was an "ornithischian" beaked dinosaur, belonging to a group ancestrally distinct from past theropod discoveries.

Source and further reading:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140724-feathered-siberia-dinosaur-scales-science/

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