25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs

Our understanding of the origin of birds took a major step forward in 1998, thanks to the reported discovery of a remarkable fossil that unveiled the existence of feathered dinosaurs. Fossil publications that year caused a sensation.

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Our knowledge about the origin of birds significantly advanced in 1998 with the discovery of a fossilized dinosaur with feathers, which caused a sensation in scientific publications that year.