Palaeontology: Scales, feathers and dinosaurs
Abstract
A fossil dinosaur that `nests' with feathered relations in the dinosaur phylogenetic tree did not, it seems, have feathers. The discovery will encourage a re-evaluation of feather evolution.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1038/440287a
- Bibcode:
- 2006Natur.440..287X