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Oldest Fossil Feather Ever Found Came From The Archaeopteryx Dinosaur, Study Confirms – ScienceAlert
The earliest fossil of a feather ever found has been stuck to the ground for roughly 150 million years. Ever since it was discovered, over a century and a half …

The earliest fossil of a feather ever found has been stuck to the ground for roughly 150 million years. Ever since it was discovered, over a century and a half ago, pretty much everything about it has remained unsettled.
Scientists have been trying to pin the feather on a Late Jurassic dinosaur for years now, and the debate hit its newest wave of turbulence in 2019, when a team of researchers argued the fossil belonged not to the Archaeopteryx lithographica – famous for being ‘the first bird’ -…
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