Feathers, filaments and theropod dinosaurs

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1998 United Kingdom English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 391, pages 119-120 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Unwin, DM;

doi: 10.1038/34279

handle: 2381/21418 , 1983/ff20f1b5-f721-40c1-8809-7eb66c9c1a2f

Feathers, filaments and theropod dinosaurs

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One of the hottest debates in palaeontology is whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. A study of two exceptionally well-preserved specimens of a theropod dinosaur from China — complete with skin, internal organs and eggs — provides new clues to the origin of feathers.

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