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Xinhua:New species of dinosaur found in N China |
BEIJING - A team of paleontologists has found an intact and complete skeleton fossil of a previously undiscovered dinosaur species in north China, the team's leading scientist Xu Xing said Saturday.
Named Linheraptor exquisitus, the new species is the latest one found in the Dromaeosauridae family of the carnivo... |
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Softpedia：Bird-Like Wrists Found in Dinosaurs |
They appeared long before the creatures took to the skies
In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have determined that dinosaur exhibited the same type of wrists that birds would later employ long before animal flight developed. According to the experts, the flexible type of joint that allowed birds then to... |
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New Scientist: Xu Xing: Unearthing how dinosaurs became birds |
17 February 2010 by Phil McKenna
Xu Xing's dinosaur finds range from a pint-sized creature with four wings to the feathered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. Between them, they have cemented the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. He talks to Phil McKenna about his work
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China Post: China leads the world in dinosaur discoveries |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Lost in time, hidden beneath the earth for millions of years, dinosaurs aren't creatures that reveal their secrets quickly.
Yet two new and surprising dino-discoveries recently have come out of the University of Kansas (KU). Not surprising, both have emerged from fossils found in a nation tha... |
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New York Times:Study Offers an Insight Into Dinosaur Colors |
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: January 27, 2010
What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes.
That is what a team of Chinese and British scientists reported Wednesday in Nature, providing the first clear evidence of dinosa... |
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National geographic: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time |
"Dino fuzz" pigment discovery in feathers may strengthen dinosaur-bird link.
Sinosauropteryx is the first fossil dinosaur to have its color scientifically established.
Illustration courtesy James Robins
Chris Sloan
National Geographic magazine paleontology editor, for National Geographic News
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NaturNews: Fossil feathers reveal dinosaurs' true colours |
Pigment-storage sacs found in fossils give hints about hue.
Matt Kaplan
Sinosauropteryx may have had orange feathers and a stripey tail.Jim Robbins
Pristine fossils of dinosaur feathers from China have yielded the first clues about their colour.
A team of palaeontologists led by Michael Benton of the... |
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