Dinosaurs With Feathers: The Ancestors of Modern Birds

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BIRDS IN THE AGE OF DINOSAURS One hundred fifty million years ago a crow-size bird glided on feather-covered wings across a tropical lagoon in what is now southern Germany Along the lagoon’s muddy shore dragonflies hovered bees buzzed and small meat eating dinosaurs hunted for lizards Sharing the sky with the bird were flying reptiles called pterosaurs which soared on narrow skin-covered wings For some reason that we will never know the bird did not complete its journey across the lagoon Instead it plunged into the water and died It sank to the bottom where fine-grained chalky mud gently covered its body almost perfectly preserving the delicate skeleton as well as an impression of feathers