Showing posts with label Feathered dinosaur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feathered dinosaur. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2022

[Paleontology • 2022] Earliest Evidence for Fruit Consumption and Potential Seed Dispersal by Birds

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   in  Hu, Wang, McDonald,  et al.,  2022.  DOI:  10.7554/eLife.74751 Abstract The Early Cretaceous diversification of birds was a major eve...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

[Paleontology • 2021] Nuclear Preservation in the Cartilage of the Jehol Dinosaur Caudipteryx

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in  Zheng, Bailleul, ... et Zhou, 2021.   DOI:  10.1038/s42003-021-02627-8 Abstract Previous findings on dinosaur cartilage material from t...
Monday, December 14, 2020

[Paleontology • 2020] Ubirajara jubatus • A Maned Theropod Dinosaur (Theropoda: Compsognathidae) from Gondwana with Elaborate Integumentary Structures

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Ubirajara jubatus   Smyth, Martill, Frey, Rivera-Sylva & Lenz, 2020  DOI:  10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104686    Illustration:  Bob Nicholls ...
Friday, August 7, 2020

[Paleontology • 2020] Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds

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  Highlights • Support Deinonychosauria as sister taxon to birds and Anchiornithinae as early birds • Powered flight potential evolved ≥3 ti...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

[Paleontology • 2019] A Polar Dinosaur Feather Assemblage from Australia

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Australian feathered polar dinosaur. in  Kundrát, Rich, Lindgren,  et al ., 2019.   DOI:  10.1016/j.gr.2019.10.004     Illustra...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

[Paleontology • 2017] Serikornis sungei • A New Jurassic Theropod from China Documents A Transitional Step in the Macrostructure of Feathers

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Serikornis sungei Lefèvre , Cau, Cincotta, Hu, Chinsamy, Escuillié & Godefroit, 2017 DOI:  10.1007/s00114-017-1496-y      Illu...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

[Paleontology • 2017] Jianianhualong tengi • Mosaic Evolution in An Asymmetrically Feathered Troodontid Dinosaur with Transitional Features

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Jianianhualong tengi   Xu, Currie, Pittman, Xing, Meng, Lü, Hu & Yu, 2017    Life reconstruction by Julius T. Csotonyi |  DOI...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

[Paleontology • 2017] New Specimens of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda, Paraves) from the late Jurassic of northeastern China

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Abstract Four new specimens of  Anchiornis huxleyi  (PKUP V1068, BMNHC PH804, BMNHC PH822, and BMNHC PH823)  were recently recove...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

[PaleoEcology / Paleontology • 2016] Dental Disparity and Ecological Stability in Bird-like Dinosaurs Prior to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

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A small feathered dinosaur swoops down on an unsuspecting lizard while a bird hunts for seeds in this reconstructed slice of life in Alb...