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Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite


Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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