Plumage could have adorned even the earliest dinosaurs, long before flight.
The fluff on this pheasant chick might jibe the downy feathers of ancient reptiles like the archosaurian reptile, whose fossil is at left.
PHOTOGRAPH BY parliamentarian CLARK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Dan Vergano
National Geographic
SB:- Which came initial, the feathers or the birds? Feathers initial, scientists currently say definitively. however this feathery revelation does not arise from discoveries of ancient birds, however of birds' ancestors—dinosaurs
At a recent Berlin conference, scientists celebrated continued revelations from the foremost famed feathered archosaurian, archeopteryx, within the town wherever the foremost complete specimen resides. Long thought-about the "first bird," it lived one hundred fifty million years past and sparked the notion that birds ar the living remnants of the archosaurian line, intriguing even Darwin.
But new finds have confirmed that feathers started long before archeopteryx initial flapped its wings. (Related: "Archaeopteryx's biological process Humiliation Continues.")
ART: SAMANTHA WELKER. SOURCE: jazz musician W. M. RAUHUT
"I suppose that the common antecedent of dinosaurs most likely had feathers which all dinosaurs had some form of feather, a bit like all mammals have some form of hair," says palaeontologist Jakob Vinther of the United Kingdom's University of urban center. (See "Evolution of Feathers" in National Geographic magazine.)
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