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China’s Feathered Dinosaurs
The foot of Confuciusornis
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deal about this stage in the evolutionary development of flight and many other aspects of dinosaur biology. For example,
visible anatomical differences that reveal sex, also known as sexual dimorphism, are common among fossil and
living dinosaurs. Confuciusornis is no exception as the males, who are larger than females, sport a pair of
exceptionally long, narrow tail feathers.