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Skin, scales,
and feathers
Dinosaurs take flight Archaeopteryx Edmontonia
Like
a chicken,
Juravenator
had feathers on its
Long feathers on its body and scales
extended arms almost
certainly gave this Jurassic on its legs.
dinosaur the ability to fly.
Juravenator
Edmontosaurus skin fossil
The furry body covering of
this small theropod dinosaur
was made up of simple,
hairlike protofeathers.
This fossil shows that the
skin of Edmontosaurus
was protected by small scales.
Most extinct dinosaurs are known only such as Edmontonia, had a type of armor
from fossils of their bones and teeth, but formed from plates of bone (scutes) embedded
some fossils also preserve details of in the skin. Amazing fossils discovered recently
soft tissues, such as skin. They show in China have revealed that many small
that many large dinosaurs like the hadrosaur theropod dinosaurs had feathers. Some, like
132 Edmontosaurus had scaly skin, and some, Sinosauropteryx, had short, slender filaments,
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