Dino Bird

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Dino Bird

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• Discovery of a dino bird fossil
• 126 to 147 millions years old
• Covered with feathers

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• Found in the Spring in China
• Duck sized dinosaur fossil
• Has primitive feathers

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• The first fully in tact fossil
• Dinosaurs had feathers before birds

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• Researchers call it a Dromaesaur
• Small and a fast-runner
• Eats meat
• Like the one from Jurassic Park

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Characteristics

• 2-3 foot long
• Big head
• Young
• Head and tail have fluffy fibers
• Branch-like feathers on arms

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Where can you go to see it?

• American Museum of Natural History
• In New York, New York

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Facts about Dinosaurs

• Prehistoric reptiles
• Lived 165 million years ago
• During the Mesozoic Age
• age of reptiles

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Birds and Dinosaurs are similar in many ways!

• Large eye openings in skull
• Lay eggs
• Both have feathers
• 4-toed feet, 3 go forward
• Short stiff tails

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Did the birds we have today evolved from
dinosaurs?

• Many scientists believe
• they did
• Others disagree
• Perhaps there isnt
• enough evidence
• What do you think?
• Called the dinosaur-to-bird theory