Did pterosaurs have feathers? Scientific debate takes flight in new study
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Debate is raging about whether pterosaurs, flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, had feathers or not. Two years ago a study claimed to have found fossil evidence of “protofeathers” on pterosaurs, but now another team claims the evidence doesn’t stack up, and the creatures were instead bald.
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