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Nature 461, 601-602 (1 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/461601a; Published online 30 September 2009
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- University of Cincinnati
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- University of East Anglia
- Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Palaeontology: Feathered dinosaurs in a tangle
Lawrence M. Witmer1
Abstract
A dramatic feathered dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic of China resolves a 'temporal paradox'. But it adds intriguing complications to the debates on the evolution of feathers and flight in birds.
Birds are dinosaurs. That's hardly the stuff of headlines any more, as data have streamed in revealing anatomical similarities between birds and the theropod dinosaurs from the tips of their noses to the tips of their feathered tails.
- Lawrence M. Witmer is in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
Email: witmerL@ohio.edu
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