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May 24, 2024 | bizzbuzz.news | Zixiao Yang

The fossil skin cells have much in common with modern reptile skin cells. They share a similar cell size and shape and they both have fused cell boundaries – a feature known only in modern reptilesStrong but light, beautiful and precisely structured, feathers are the most complex skin appendage that ever evolved in vertebrates. Despite this, humans have been playing with feathers since prehistory. There is still a lot we don't understand about them.

May 21, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Zixiao Yang

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May 21, 2024 | inkl.com | Zixiao Yang

A feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak is helping shed new light on how reptile scales became bird feathers, according to scientists. Psittacosaurus – a plant-eating creature about the size of a large dog – roamed the forests of China, Russia and Mongolia somewhere between 135 and 120 million years ago. Palaeontologists have now discovered the creature, often known as the “parrot lizard”, had reptile-like skin in areas of the body without feathers.

May 21, 2024 | fotos.europapress.es | Zixiao Yang

22/05/2024 Armisén destaca la apuesta de Plapisa por el empleo estable, con un centenar de trabajadores, y por el medio rural

May 14, 2024 | go.nature.com | Zixiao Yang

Read the paper The story began in the summer of 2021 when a truck load of fossils was donated from a private collection to Nanjing University in China. The fossils came from the famous Jehol Biota, where thousands of feathered dinosaurs have been discovered. Naturally, we were curious and excited about the dinosaurs in the truck: were they feathered as well? There were two dinosaur specimens, but neither of them appeared to preserve feathers, or any soft tissues for that matter.