Winged Dinosaur Wore Plumage of Black Feathers (page 2)
An international team of researchers led by Brown University has shed some new light on whether the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx could fly. The team has determined that a well-preserved feather on the raven-sized dinosaur's wing was black, which is evidence that the feathers had traits that could help Archaeopteryx fly. Also, the researchers determined that the fossilized feather's structure is identical to living birds, according to the research published in the journal Nature Communications. "If Archaeopteryx was flapping or gliding, the presence of melanosomes [pigment-producing parts of a cell] would have given the feathers additional structural support," Ryan Carney, an evolutionary biologist at Brown and the paper's lead author, said in a press release. "This would have been advantageous during this early evolutionary stage of dinosaur flight." The feather the researchers studied was discovered in a limestone deposit in Germany in 1861, which was just a few years after Charles Darwin's On the Origin of
Winged Dinosaur Wore Plumage of Black Feathers
Like a raven this dinosaur may have been jet black and ready for flight.
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Livescience
Feather color suggests dinosaur flight
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers studying the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx say they've found evidence the creature's feathers were rigid and durable enough to allow it to ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from UPI
New Research Shows Feathered Dinosaur Could Fly
An international team of researchers led by Brown University has shed some new light on whether the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx could fly. The team has determined that a well-preserved feather ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from RedOrbit
Video: Winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx dressed for flight
Since its discovery 150 years ago, scientists have puzzled over whether the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx represents the missing link in birds' evolution to powered flight. Much of the debate ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Labspaces.net
Winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx dressed for flight, Tue 24 Jan 12 from e! Science News
Winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx dressed for flight
The iconic, winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was dressed for flight, an international team of researchers has concluded. The group identified the color of the raven-sized creature's fossilized ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from ScienceDaily
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