It Turns Out Feathers Are 70M Years Older Than We Thought

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A new discovery pushes the origin of feathers back by 70 million years.

Paleontologists found that pterosaurs had at least four types of feathers in common with the dinosaurs they lived alongside 230 to 66 million years ago.

The flying reptiles are believed to have been covered in a sort of furry down, known as “pycnofibers”—presumed to be fundamentally different to feathers of dinosaurs and birds.

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