Fossil Finding (IMAGE)

Virginia Tech

Fossil Finding

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In this artist's rendering of the Asilisaurus kongwe, the animal is shown as it would walk and move about. The stripes are artistic license, although the animal's 'proto-feathers' are likely. 'We have good reason to think they probably had some sort of simple feather-like structures ... but we haven't found evidence of this yet," said Christopher Griffin, a geoscience graduate student at Virginia Tech.

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Painting by Andrey Atuchin

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