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Discovery Channel: Earliest Feathers for Show, Not Flight |
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Jan. 12, 2009 -- The world`s first feathers probably had nothing to do with flight or staying warm but were instead for showy display purposes, according to a new study that documents the most primitive known version of feathers, which were found on a Chinese dinosaur.
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Times Online: Downy dinosaur found in China was an early bird |
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Science News: Dinosaur fossil reveals creature of a different feather |
By Sid Perkins
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EnlargeA DIFFERENT FEATHERPaleontologists have discovered what they say is a new type of fossilized feather. The team has observed a stiff, unbranched filament on a specimen of Beipiaosaurus,, a previously known species of dinosaur that also sported other ty... |
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Media on China finds of "largest dinosaur fossil site" in world |
Big dinosaur fossils find in ChinaNDTV.com, India - Dec 31, 2008PTI Paleontologists in China claim to have found the world`s biggest deposit of dinosaur bones in the old city of Zhucheng in Shandong province on country`s ...
Chinese scientists claim discovery of earth`s largest dinosaur ...CBC.ca, Canada - ... |
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Newscientist--China's dinosaur 'graveyard' yields triceratops' cousin |
One of the world`s biggest dinosaur graves, in China, has yielded a key discovery: the 2-metre-long skull of a ceratopsid, a close relative of the triceratops. It is the first evidence that ceratopsids lived beyond North America.
Since March 2008, over 7600 fossils have been found at the site in Zhucheng city, s... |
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Times Online-- World's 'largest dinosaur fossil site' found in China |
The remains of an enormous platypus have been found in China amongst what is believed to be the largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones ever discovered.
Palaeontologists have dug up more than 7,000 bones in 15 separate areas in Zhucheng City, known locally as ‘Dinosaur City’, in China’s eastern Shandong pr... |
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Xinhua, China--Experts: Shandong dinosaur fossil field "world's largest" |
www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-29 20:01:03
JINAN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A dinosaur fossil field discovered this year in eastern China appears to be the largest in the world, a paleontologist told Xinhua on Monday.
More than 7,600 fossils have been discovered so far in Zhucheng City in eastern Shandong Province... |
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China Daily:220m-year-old turtle fossils found in Guizhou |
By Lin Shujuan (China Daily)
Newly discovered fossils of a primitive turtle species, the oldest of its kind found in the world, gives credence to the belief that turtles originated from an aquatic environment and its shell formed before its dorsal carapace, according to today`s Nature magzine.
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