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Cretaceous Thanksgiving

Feathered dino ate true bird

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

More than 120 million years before the first Thanksgiving — before the first turkey even — at least one dinosaur was feasting on a bird.

FEATHER FIGHT An artist’s reconstruction of an ancient bird becoming dinner for Microraptor gui — still identified as a non-avian dinosaur despite the winglike feathers along all four of its limbs.