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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Dan Haygarth

One of science’s biggest mysteries could be solved by fossilised feather in dinosaur dung

An illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird - (Andrey Atuchin)

The feather of a bird eaten by a dinosaur 66 million years ago could provide the answer to one of science’s great mysteries.

The bird’s unfortunate demise resulted in the best example of a feather ever found from the age of dinosaurs, as it survived in the form of fossilised dung.

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