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  2. Feathered dinosaur - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Fossil feathers from the dinosaur Sinosauropteryx contain traces of beta-proteins (formerly called beta-keratins), confirming that early feathers had a composition similar to that of feathers in modern birds. [6] Crocodilians also possess beta keratin similar to those of birds, which suggests that they evolved from common ancestral ...

  3. Sinosauropteryx - Wikipedia

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    While Sinosauropteryx had feather-like structures, it was not very closely related to the previous "first bird" Archaeopteryx. [2] There are many dinosaur clades that were more closely related to Archaeopteryx than Sinosauropteryx was, including the deinonychosaurians, the oviraptorosaurians, and the therizinosauroids. [8]

  4. Yutyrannus - Wikipedia

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    Yutyrannus (Simplified Chinese : 华丽羽王龙 Traditional Chinese : 華麗羽王龍 Pinyin : Huà Lì Yǔ Wáng Lóng meaning "feathered tyrant") is a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur which contains a single known species, Yutyrannus huali.

  5. Evidence of fluffy dinosaurs discovered for the first time - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Chinese fossil reveals evolution of skin in feathered dinosaurs

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    The first rudimentary feathers are thought to have evolved from reptilian scales nearly 250 million years ago in animals ancestral to dinosaurs and the flying reptiles called pterosaurs ...

  7. The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much ...

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    "Regarding discoveries about dinosaurs in recent decades, the most important one to my mind is the discovery that at least meat-eating dinosaurs, theropods, had feathers rather than scales and ...

  8. Coelurosauria - Wikipedia

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    Coelurosauria is a subgroup of theropod dinosaurs that includes compsognathids, tyrannosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, and maniraptorans; Maniraptora includes birds, the only known dinosaur group alive today. [5] Most feathered dinosaurs discovered so far have been coelurosaurs.

  9. List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of ...

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    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 ...