A Feathered dinosaur (IMAGE)

University of Adelaide

A Feathered dinosaur

Caption

The feathered dinosaur Microraptor pounces on a nest of primitive birds (Sinornis). Both species lived during the Cretaceous Period (about 120 million years ago) in what is now northern China.

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Image by Brian Choo.

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