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Flying dinosaur fossil with intact feathers reveals how first birds took flight

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...
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Feathered fossil shows famed dinosaur could fly (like a chicken)

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Is this dinosaur fossil the shocking key to how birds learned to fly?

For centuries, humans have looked to the skies and wished they could fly, to be as free as a bird. Little did we know, a scrappy little dinosaur beat us to it 150 million years ago. Meet Archaeopteryx ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Famous, Feathered Dinosaur Archaeopteryx Could Fly, Suggests New Study of a ‘Beautifully Preserved’ Fossil

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, seen under UV light, shows soft tissues alongside the skeleton. Delaney Drummond Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed ...