Paleontologists Uncover the First Feathered Dinosaur Fossils in the Americas

A chance find has scientists reconsidering their conceptions of an ostrich-like dino and their methods of fossil preparation.

By Veronique Greenwood
Oct 25, 2012 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:50 AM
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Artist's reconstruction of the feathered ornithomimid dinosaurs found in Alberta. | Image © Julius Csotonyi

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In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield spied what appeared to be the remains of a small carnivorous dinosaur. He made a few calls and soon his colleague Francois Therrien, a paleontologist at the nearby Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, to come have a look.

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