feathered dinosaurs
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Stupendously Preserved Fossil Shows Mammal Preying on Beaked Dinosaur
About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million…
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Beautifully Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Spotted in Fossilized Egg
The rare fossil embryo of an oviraptor is revealing a surprising connection between the hatching behaviour of dinosaurs and modern birds, according to new research.
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Extraordinary Fossil Captures Nesting Oviraptor Dinosaur Alongside Unhatched Offspring
Paleontologists in China have unearthed the fossil of an oviraptorosaur sitting on a nest of eggs. By itself that’s an amazing and rare discovery, but this fossil is unique in that the eggs still preserve evidence of the unhatched progeny inside.
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Fossil With Preserved Tail Feathers And Skin Reveals Dinosaur Plumage Patterns
An undergraduate student from the University of Alberta has uncovered the fossilised remains of an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue. The remarkable specimen is offering important insights into the plumage patterns of these ancient creatures, while tightening the linkages between dinosaurs and birds.