Here's a pretty thing: newly described feathered dinosaur Caihong juji had iridescent feathers, the earliest such example in the fossil record. (Credit Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum, for UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences)
Here's a pretty thing: newly described feathered dinosaur Caihong juji had iridescent feathers, the earliest such example in the fossil record. (Credit Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum, for UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences)
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