Pterosaurs May Have Had Brightly Colored Feathers, Exquisite Fossil Reveals - Scientific American

An amazingly well-preserved fossil suggests the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs also had some type of feather or feather precursor

Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with wispy filaments paleontologists call pycnofibers, were the fi… [+6761 chars]

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