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
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...