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feathered dinosaur fossil

Posted on 06/07/2012 by

This fossil is a 150-million-year-old squirrel-tailed, feathered dinosaur, named Sciurumimus albersdoerferi. Oliver Rauhut of the Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology says, “I was overwhelmed when I first saw it. Even apart from the preservation of feathers, this is … Continue reading →

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embryonic

Posted on 13/11/2010 by

A tiny (20cm-long) skeleton of an about-to-hatch dinosaur embryo contained in Massospondylus eggs found in South Africa in 1976. A recent study of the fossilized dinosaur eggs reveals the embryos are the oldest ever found of any land-dwelling vertebrate. Source: … Continue reading →

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