Incredible Pterosaur Fossil Proves Once And For All That Flying Dinosaurs Had Feathers - Not Fur

Artist’s reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-coloured branched feathers.
Note: Press release photo(Bob Nicholls 2022/Newsflash). Artist’s reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-coloured branched feathers. Note: Press release photo(Bob Nicholls 2022/Newsflash).
Copyrights: Bob Nicholls 2022/Newsflash

21 April 2022
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One of the great unsolved mysteries about dinosaurs as to whether flying pterosaurs had feathers or fur has been solved after the discovery of a remarkable prehistoric fossil that can be clearly seen to have been feathered. An international team of palaeontologists have now officially...