New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Monday, December 17, 2018 - 15:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An international team of palaeontologists has discovered that the flying reptiles, pterosaurs, actually had four kinds of feathers, and these are shared with dinosaurs -- pushing back the origin of feathers by some 70 million years.

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