Did dinosaurs have feathers?
If you find a feather on the ground, you probably know in an instant that it belonged to a bird. This isn’t just an oversimplification. There is a 100-percent chance that any real feather you find today came from a bird or from something made from a bird’s feathers, like a hat plume, a fluffy boa or the inside of a down comforter. Of all the animals in the world, only birds have feathers, and without them, birds couldn’t fly. According to the fossil record, birds and their feathers have been on Earth since the Jurassic Period. Many paleontologists consider the oldest known bird to be Archaeopteryx lithographica, which lived about 150 million years ago. Whether Archaeopteryx could fly is up for debate, but the primitive bir
