Dinosaurs came out of the dark cold to take over the world after Triassic mass extinction - ZME Science

There's still much about dinosaurs we get wrong. A new study suggests dinosaurs could withstand the freezing cold thanks to primitive feathers covering their bodies, drastically altering the popular imagery we have of them.

Illustration of feathered dinosaur feasting on a mammal during a snowy volcanic winter. Painting by Larry Felder. Paleontologists often talk a lot about how dinosaurs met their tragic end in an epi… [+9124 chars]

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