The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we re here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and feathers. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi, Julio Lacerda, Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart. Check out his portfolio: http://spinops.blogspot.com Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html https://watermark.silverchair.com/j.1095-8312.1976.tb00244.x.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAfUwggHxBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggHiMIIB3gIBADCCAdcGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMwcgaUHAd0QLZSaixAgEQgIIBqMBuONttH3vzrZjnZ3x6hHOYEWTK0NKIXPaEsJWvtg-gIz2L8KeTlj8bmH3BNA8vDbeBy-cMgAejmIPwXtz3TCAtGsu5I4gGRcDnQuERZUsCy0UKJcS38tIa42C362b83Q9o-GC8gR0peqyTOB6SbuF10DUx8bclg_U_CUehID11YiEsSHKDXqUn8H6yFVYRW9RJ7bdZAEWWCDwYaGy-aBMUbpl2C9mwWyL7TMQzjG-DYDj4J2-h8iXZ7CafvLJ2PH6sKZGSNOxD_KA1xLd9JzbZpiGnQ_ptWeWfVCD3DirVtnnlKQrVJt7htNifbTJCsLcvTThuIU9kmCUzD9SSMYX-wn8el4kXWEMMMTE4VghC97hYc7ePEdu3jT4uity6BFEzqN7BniYNhNsFI9XKQ7Sx_gW70fv-FJo141kUDMzJdiKyK0sXXbZbna7KEqXXo0ZaT62cUBMRiXtWBNLk3K8yHhIcel2SOwTmpL_kTSyA-lXen5H1U9bZkLPc46pVzDo2mjLPRXUie_CljiDBCLCjGKT13Oayrn20rJOousRIzwOPVyTcxnI https://www.livescience.com/24745-archaeopteryx.html http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/19/us/feathery-fossil-hints-dinosaur-bird-link.html Ostrom, J. H. (1969). Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana (Vol. 30). Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. http://paleoglot.org/files/Ji&Ji_96.pdf http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/341993 http://english.ivpp.cas.cn/rh/rp/200912/t20091202_48050.html https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120404-yutyrannus-feathers-dinosaur-science-nature-biggest/ https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v431/n7009/full/nature02855.html https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/nature10906.html http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2010/00000258/00000003/art00001 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082(2002)381%3C0001:NSOMZT%3E2.0.CO;2 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/299/5605/402.full?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=Dial%252C%20K&searchid=1056403726368_9319&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&fdate=10/1/1995&tdate=6/30/2003 https://www.livescience.com/57056-could-dinosaurs-fly.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-002-0339-6 http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/papers/gmayr43.pdf https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G331/lectures/331phyloinference.html https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140724-feathered-siberia-dinosaur-scales-science/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/earliest-dinosaurs-may-have-sported-feathers http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6195/451 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds/2013/jun/10/dinosaurs-fossils https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/exaptations_01 http://oro.open.ac.uk/22432/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26970-stunning-fossils-big-mama-brooding/ http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e96-046#.WeeoxtenGM8 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17488937 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/long-live-the-fuzzy-t-rex/ http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/343/1/251.short https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14610039 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327254-100-velociraptors-killing-claws-were-for-climbing/ http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0028964 http://www.montana.edu/news/10650/dinosaurs-with-killer-claws-yield-new-theory-about-flight https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090318/full/news.2009.172.html
