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Nature 393, 729-730 (25 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/31576

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When is a bird not a bird?

Kevin Padian1

Birds were once thought to have a large number of features exclusive to the group. One by one those features have also been identified in fossils of certain theropod dinosaurs. Now feathers join the list.

  1. Kevin Padian is in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.
    e-mail: Email: kpadian@socrates.berkeley.edu