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A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers. That includes all species of birds, and in recent decades evidence has accumulated that many non-avian dinosaur species also possessed feathers in some shape or form. The extent to which feathers or feather-like structures were present in dinosaurs as a whole is a subject of ...
Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing") is an extinct genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs. Described in 1996, it was the first dinosaur taxon outside of Avialae (birds and their immediate relatives) to be found with evidence of feathers. It was covered with a coat of very simple filament-like feathers.
The description of feathered dinosaurs has not been without controversy in general; perhaps the most vocal critics have been Alan Feduccia and Theagarten Lingham-Soliar, who have proposed that some purported feather-like fossils are the result of the decomposition of collagenous fiber that underlaid the dinosaurs' skin, [257] [258] [259] and ...
The fossils show that the dinosaurs had a diversity of tufted hair-like "proto-feathers," which would have been used for insulation. The fossils also showed body and wing feathers that would have ...
Fossil of Sinornithosaurus millenii, the first evidence of feathers in dromaeosaurids Cast of a Caudipteryx fossil with feather impressions and stomach content Fossil cast of a Sinornithosaurus millenii Jinfengopteryx elegans fossil. Many non-avian dinosaurs were feathered. Direct evidence of feathers exists for the following species, listed in ...
Psittacosaurus had simple, bristle-like feathers atop its tail. The rest of its body was covered by scaly skin. The fossil did not have skin from the dinosaur's feathered regions, but the ...
Velociraptor (/ v ə ˌ l ɒ s ɪ ˈ r æ p t ər, v ə ˈ l ɒ s ɪ r æ p t ər /; [1] lit. ' swift thief ') is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago.
If your childhood was ruined when you learned your favorite dinosaur actually had a fluffy coating of feathers, get ready for another blow. A new study suggests Tyrannosaurus rex had giant, full ...