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Longisquama's appedanges quite a bit like feathers

Adam Khor · 2012-04-03 23:08:52

Until now there was no consensus over the strange feather-like structures on the back of Longisquama (you know, the "flying chameleon" thingy from the opening sequence in Disney's Dinosaur). Some believed the so called feathers were probably plants that were fossilized along with the lizard-like creature. Now a new study…

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04-04-2012 12:08am

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Until now there was no consensus over the strange feather-like structures on the back of Longisquama (you know, the "flying chameleon" thingy from the opening sequence in Disney's Dinosaur).
Some believed the so called feathers were probably plants that were fossilized along with the lizard-like creature.

Now a new study confirms that they are part of the animal and that they may represent the initial stages of protofeather development in early archosauromorphs.

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#2 09-04-2012 2:01pm
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Fuel for the BAND camp?

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