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Nature 410, 1036-1037 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074225
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Palaeontology: Ruffling feathers
Hans-Dieter Sues
Abstract
The evolution of feathers and flight were generally thought to be inextricably linked. But new fossils from China show that feathers pre-dated the origin of flight and of birds.
One of the liveliest debates in palaeontology has concerned the origin of birds. There is now overwhelming anatomical evidence that birds evolved from small predatory dinosaurs known as theropods, and that the two groups are linked by a remarkable series of transitional forms1.
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