Feathers came first, then birds: New research led by the University of Bristol suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds, changing how we look at dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles

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Feathers came first, then birds: New research led by the University of Bristol suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds, changing how we look at dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles