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A fishy mammal ID

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For more than a century, the fossilized skull of an ancient fish was misidentified as a primate

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Dino find ruffles feathers

The skeleton of Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, embedded in a limestone slab, suggests that feathers might have been the norm for dinosaurs. Credit: H. Tischlinger/Jura Museum Eichstatt

Nearly-perfect, newfound dinosaur fossil reveals more dinos were feathered than previously thought

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