Mike Benton
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Study of flying reptile sheds light on origin of feathers
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- December 17, 2018, 08:46
Scientists from University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that pterosaurs had four kinds of feathers, shifting the origin of feathers back by 70 m(...)

Colours of dinosaurs thrown into doubt by new UCC study
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- July 23, 2018, 15:46
Scientists may have to rethink their theories on what colours dinosaurs were, following a study at University College Cork (UCC). Many scientists had(...)

Familiar problem for feathered forebears: Dinosaurs had dandruff too
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- May 25, 2018, 17:01
UCC palaeontologists have discovered 125 million-year-old dandruff preserved among the plumage of feathered dinosaurs and early birds – offering the f(...)

How colourful and feathery were the dinosaurs?
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- February 15, 2018, 06:00
Jurassic Park (1993) featured Velociraptors hunting park visitors, depicting them as wily lizard-like predators. Time and science, however, have been (...)

Scientists discover pre-dinosaur fossil of reptile with embryo
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- February 14, 2017, 20:57
An extraordinary fossil unearthed in southwestern China shows a pregnant long-necked marine reptile that lived millions of years before the dinosaurs (...)