Nature’s Super Feather

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...
Inverse

Pterosaur Study Pushes Back the Origin of Feathers by 70 Million Years

Advances in scientific technology are upending what we know about pterosaurs, the reptilian close cousins to dinosaurs who were the first of Earth’s vertebrates to achieve flapping-powered flight.
UPI

Feathers originated 70 million years earlier than scientists thought

Dec. 17 (UPI) --New research proves pterosaurs had feathers too, the same kinds as dinosaurs and birds. The discovery pushes back the origin of feathers by at least 70 million years. For millions of ...
Science Daily

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

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 ...
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Pterosaurs were covered with colorful feathers, study says

Pterosaurs ruled the skies during the age of the dinosaurs, but scientists have long debated if they actually had feathers.Now we know. Not only did these flying reptiles have feathers, but they could ...