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Post by account_disabled on Aug 30, 2023 5:36:34 GMT
Credit: Chung-tat Cheung. The tail is flexible and composed of a series of elongate, cylindrical vertebrae. The feathers also support a particular pathway for the evolutionary development of these structures. ResearchGate: What do you know about the dinosaur this tail was once attached to? McKellar: We know that we are dealing with a small Switzerland Mobile Number List individual (sparrow-sized), that was probably a juvenile, and that it fits into a broad grouping of dinosaurs called Coelurosauria, the large group that contains everything from Tyrannosaurus to modern birds. Most members of this group are thought to be bipedal carnivores. The individual that the tail came from would have had rows of feathers coming off the sides of its tail, and this part body would have been fuzzy looking, with pale or. White feathers on the underside of the tail, and brown feathers on the upper surface. If this sort of plumage ran the entire length of the tail, it seems unlikely that the animal would have been an active flyer.
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