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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.
A group of Chi... |
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Scientific American: How did turtles get their shells? |
| Ever wonder how a turtle got its shell? You`re not the only one. Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have long been stumped by the question. But a recently unearthed turtle fossil, the oldest on record, may hold the answer. Researchers report in Nature today that the fossil indicates shells evolved as an ext... |
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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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