Flying Dinosaur? (VIDEO)

Brown University

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Using new research techniques and tools, Ryan Carney and colleagues determined that the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx feather was black, which would have provided structural advantages to the raven-sized dinosaur’s wings during flight.

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Mike Cohea and Richard Lewis, Brown University

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