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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26653799

Anzu!

That is so cool

Haha awesome. I love how more dinos are starting to look like giant chickens

Wicked!

Neat thanks for sharing.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.

Interesting but I'd like to know how they came to the conclusion that it had feathers.

Sometimes they find fossilized imprints of the feathers, like you see imprints of plants. So it could be a case of something like that. Other times I think they work off comparison to other present day things of similar structure. If it walked like a duck, swam like a duck... Chances are good that it was probably a duck. Or at least duck-like. [I say probably because sometimes... It turns out to be Daffy]

They have found on a lot of other dinos in the same family have feathers so it's highly likely they would too. There is enough evidence to prove that the members of the raptor family had feathers.

This one describes it:
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ ... ell-131922

"Although the Anzu specimens preserve only bones, close relatives of this dinosaur have been found with fossilized feathers, strongly suggesting that the new creature was feathered too. "

It seems likely that many dinosaur groups had some level of feather or down coverings on at least some of their species, much like mammals have hair. So many of them may have appeared quite different to the images we're used to, like the difference between a chicken and a plucked chicken.