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Flying Beast Had Hair Like No Other
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06-08-2009 12:47pm#1Studies of a Jeholopterus ninchengensis originally found in China in 2000 have shown that pterosaurs had unique hair unlike any animal that lives today.The fibers "would have made it easier to make subtle adjustments of the wing membrane when flying, perhaps giving them better flight capability," said study co-author Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist at Brazil's Museu Nacional (National Museum) in Rio de Janeiro.
The well-preserved fossil also included hairlike fibers quite different from the hair on modern mammals.
Similar fibers had been found on pterosaurs before, but researchers had wondered if they were simply products of tissue decay.
Full article here.
Photo by Alexander Kellner2
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