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03 2010
Kevin Holden
BEIJING – After the discovery of microscopic evidence of feather coloring and patterns in dinosaur and bird fossils dating back more than 120 million years, Chinese scientists are now working wit...
12
03 2010
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 ...
01
03 2010
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...
02
02 2010
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 ou...
01
02 2010
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 C...
01
02 2010
Two findings this week boost the link between birds and dinosaurs. They include the discovery of a bird-like dinosaur and a fossil analysis that suggests some dinosaurs sported colored feathers.
On the top, sh...
28
01 2010
"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
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28
01 2010
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...
26
01 2010
By Dennis Normile
ScienceNOW Daily News
25 January 2010
How did birds learn to fly? The first flight tests of a foam model of a four-winged, feathered dinosaur suggest that early birds may have started...
15
01 2010
By Lin Shujuan (China Daily)
Two press conferences and dozens of interviews by experts over the past two weeks have failed to quiet the unprecedented public debate on the ownership of an ancient tomb discovere...
