From the earliest days of paleontological research, the origin of birds was an area of special interest. Largely thanks to the work of Thomas Huxley and
Scientists have found few cluesabout the origin of feathersfrom the structurally modemfeathers of Archaeopteryx, the ear-liest bird known to date. A new hy-pothesis was recently proposed
According to an official announcement by the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), a piece of critical evidence for the origin and early evolution of feathers has been described from a...