Feathered Dinosaurs
The Ancients
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The Origins of Birds
The feathered dinosaurs were close to the ancestry of birds and it's actually some of them. Some herbivorous dinosaurs might have had little bits of feathery covering. There was a small quadrupedal dinosaur called Sitako Saurus that had feathery quills on its tail. That was a very distant relative of the carnivorous dinosaurs where feathering seems to have been more of a thing. So this is the origin story of birds in one way too? Yes, it is. The feathers seem to have been evolved a lot long before flight evolved. I mean, did they really want to look ridiculous, but they had feathers too.
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