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Rise of the fuzzy dinosaurs

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An exceptionally well-preserved fossil hints that all dinosaurs might have modelled protofeathers.

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  1. Rauhut, O. W. M., Foth, C., Tischlinger, H. & Norell, M. A. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1203238109 (2012).

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