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Nature 440, 287-288 (16 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440287a; Published online 15 March 2006
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Palaeontology: Scales, feathers and dinosaurs
Xing Xu1
Abstract
A fossil dinosaur that 'nests' with feathered relations in the dinosaur phylogenetic tree did not, it seems, have feathers. The discovery will encourage a re-evaluation of feather evolution.
Only birds have feathers — or so we thought until the discovery of fossils of feathered dinosaurs in China and elsewhere1. Since then, palaeontologists and biologists have together been painting a simple picture of feather evolution based on evidence from fossils and from developmental biology.
- Xing Xu is at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xiwai Street, Beijing 100044, China.
Email: xu.xing@ivpp.ac.cn
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