Dinosaurs
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The Evolution of Feathered Birds
Fossils tell us that a huge variety of dinosaurs all across the family tree had feathers. The first simple feathers probably evolved for similar reasons to mammal hair, to keep these dinosaurs warm. And then later on, some dinosaurs modified those feathers. Those feathers got bigger, they got longer and started to branch out. They created but now, wit the see susie was talking about with the colors, we can tell the colors of some of these first wings on dinosaurs were really flamboyant.
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