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CBC.ca, Canada: Early dinosaur`s feathers were for show, not flight |
Paleontologists in China have discovered the fossils of a pigeon-sized feathered dinosaur that was bird-like in many ways, including that it possibly used its plumage to attract mates.
Epidexipteryx, a new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur from the Jurassic period of China, is a primitive, flightless member of the... |
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BBC News, UK: New feathered dinosaur discovered |
By James Morgan
The fossil of a "bizarre" feathered dinosaur from the era before birds evolved has been discovered in China.
Epidexipteryx was very bird-like, with four long ribbon-like tail feathers - probably used in display.
But the pigeon-sized creature shows no sign of the flight feathers seen in ot... |
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NewScientist: Half-feathered dinosaur was a bit of a show-off |
12:25 23 October 2008 by Jeff Hecht
A pigeon-sized, flightless dinosaur that may have lived before Archaeopteryx had a body covered with short downy feathers and four spectacular display feathers on its tail.
The Chinese fossil, named Epidexipteryx (meaning "display feather"), "is very close to the bird line... |
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