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two shakes of a tail feather

Posted on 15/03/2013 by

King Bird of Paradise, New Guinea, photographed by Tim Laman Source: National Geographic

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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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