Scales, feathers and dinosaurs

Xing Xu ()
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Xing Xu: the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7082, 287-288

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.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/440287a

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