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Microraptor Illustration

Caption: This is an artist's recreation of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. Recent research has shown that the dinosaur had iridescent plumage.

Credit: (Jason Brougham/University of Texas)

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