Des dinosaures aux oiseaux: l’origine de la formation des plumes - Médias - UNIGE

La première plume de dinosaure jamais découverte aurait appartenu à un archéoptéryx

Une nouvelle analyse apporte les preuves les plus convaincantes à ce jour que cette plume du Jurassique appartenait à l’emblématique dinosaure à plumes.

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds - Nature

Here the presence of melanosomes — characteristic bodies that give feathers their colour — is demonstrated in feathers and feather-like structures of fossil early birds and dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Group of China. Not only is it shown that the feather–like structures of dinosaurs such as Sinosauropteryx really are akin to feathers, it is also possible to speculate in an informed way about their colour.