Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs

BBC: Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs

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A discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs.

Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier.

This has raised the question of whether many more of the creatures may have been covered with similar bristles, or "dino-fuzz".

The team describe the fossil in the journal Nature.

Fuzzy dinos? You mean dinosaurs may actually have looked like this?

Barney


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