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'Dancing dragon' shows feathers grew differently on dinosaurs and birds

An exquisite fossil of a fierce little Chinese dinosaur dubbed the "dancing dragon" that lived 120 million years ago - an older cousin of the Velociraptor - is showing scientists that feathers grew differently on dinosaurs than on birds. [Source]

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Origin: reuters.com

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Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/Gr4i4dfNKy4/dancing-dragon-shows-feathers-grew-differently-on-dinosaurs-and-birds-idUSKBN1ZG2K7

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