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China’s Feathered Dinosaurs
The Chinese Fossils
northeastern China have revolutionized our understanding of the origin of feathers and flight in dinosaurs.
Exquisitely preserved skeletons of four new theropod dinosaurs — Sinosauropteryx, Protarchaeopteryx,
Caudipteryx and Confuciusornis — bear remains of feathers, although only one of them — Confuciusornis— could actually fly.