Feathered Dinosaurs
The Ancients
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The Origins of Birds
Archaeopterics lithographica was the only decently complete fossil bird that was found for many decades. It had feathers, but in many other ways it was very reptilian. The consensus is that it could fly, but probably not very far or very fast. But you know, if you wouldn't have seen it doing long distance migrations. For a long time, it was just a sort of strange outlier. In the end of the Jurassic, this one fossil bird, there had to be more. Nobody had found them until 1995.
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