{"id":546604,"date":"2010-04-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2288537"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:30:00","slug":"how-dino-feathers-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546604","title":{"rendered":"How dino feathers changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100428-coslog-dinofeathers-square-1155a.jpg\" width=466 height=466><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Xing Lida and Song Qijin<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">Scientists say the feathers of early and late juvenile Similicaudipteryx dinosaurs <BR>had markedly different looks, especially on the wings and tail, as shown here.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>A rare fossil find from China reveals how dinosaurs&#8217; feathers changed as the creatures matured. The discovery, announced in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v464\/n7293\/abs\/nature08965.html#\/\">this week&#8217;s issue of the journal Nature<\/A>, suggests that dinosaurs&nbsp;molted like modern-day birds do &#8211; even though their feathers developed in an un-birdlike way.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;This find suggests that early feathers were developmentally more diverse than modern ones and that some developmental features &#8230; have been lost in feather evolution,&#8221; the researchers wrote.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/04\/28\/2288537.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2288537\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xing Lida and Song Qijin Scientists say the feathers of early and late juvenile Similicaudipteryx dinosaurs had markedly different looks, especially on the wings and tail, as shown here. A rare fossil find from China reveals how dinosaurs&#8217; feathers changed as the creatures matured. The discovery, announced in this week&#8217;s issue of the journal Nature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}