Monday, April 9, 2012

Fuzzy Dinos

In north eastern China fossils were found of bus sized dinosaurs with feathers like chicks. There were three mostly complete 125-million-year-old fossils.The adult was at bare minimum 30 feet long and weighed 2500 lbs. The two smaller ones were only a half ton each. Paleontologists are saying it's “direct evidence for the presence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs.” The species was named Yutyrannus huali, which means “beautiful feathered tyrant” because it's the largest dinosaur ever found with feathers. The feathers were like the feathers of a chick, not like the down feathers of an adult. the feathers could not be used for flight and were most likely used for insulation. This discovery has made scientists think that maybe more meat eating carnivores used to have feathers, more so than even in the past 20 years. 

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