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LiveScience.com: Dinosaur Wore Primitive Down Coat
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
  posted: 12 January 2009 05:00 pm ET
  When alive, Beipiaosaurus would have sported shorter feathers on its entire body with tufts of long, broad feathers on its head, tail and trunk. Credit: Reconstruction by Zhao Chuang and Xing Lida.
  The evolution of the flashy down coat h...
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.
  The din...
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
  Web edition : 5:41 pm
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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...
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 - ...
Thaindian.com, Thailand --Worlds largest dino fossil site reveals first Asian triceratops
January 7th, 2009 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI -
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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...
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...
CBC.ca, Canada--Chinese scientists claim discovery of earth's largest dinosaur fossil site
CBC News
  A dinosaur fossil field discovered this year in eastern China is being touted as the largest of its kind on earth, according to a Chinese paleontologist.
  Scientists have found more than 7,600 fossils in a field at Zhucheng city in eastern Shandong province, said Zhao Xijin, a paleontologist with the...
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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