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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
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Dinosaurs Evolved Feathers for Far More Than Flight
T he more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx ...
First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
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Dino Birds
And now there are thousands of feathered dinosaur fossils that are known. And it wasn't only small ones. NARRATOR: More than 100 years after a link was first made, birds were finally confirmed as ...
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
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Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...
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Walking With Dinosaurs New Series Releases Stunning First Images
PBS and BBC have released the stunning first images from the documentary ... off a realistic Albertosaurus complete with feathers. Walking With Dinosaurs will show off a realistic Albertosaurus ...