This dinosaur may have shed its feathers like modern songbirds
The first fossilized signs of sequential molting support the idea that Microraptor was a flier
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New fossil analyses of Microraptor, a nonbird feathered dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, reveal its molting behavior — and suggest the dinosaur was a frequent flyer.
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