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All dinosaurs may have had feathers

Well-preserved fossil sports long, fine plumage and a bushy tail

By Meghan Rosen

- More than 2 years ago

Early dinosaurs probably looked a lot more like Big Bird than scientists once suspected. A newly discovered, nearly complete fossilized skeleton hints that all dinosaurs may have sported feathers.

Based on remnants of plumage in a remarkably preserved fossil of a meat-eating megalosaur, paleontologists suggest that all dinosaurs could have had feathers.