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Search:  About Us Research People Cooperation News Education & Training Join Us Societies & Publications Newsletter Resources Links News Events Int'l Cooperation News Upcoming Events Seminar Related News PALAEONEWS   Location:Home > News > Related News Related News   Chinese feather fossil suggests answer to 130 million-year-old question about origins of bird flight 22 November, 2016, by Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post 　　Discovery of protein in ancient avian specimen could help scientists reconstruct properties of early birds and animals 　　Researchers have identified a protein essential to flight in the fossilised feathers of a 130-million-year-ol...   Dinosaurs could finally show their true colours: Oldest ever red pigment is found in a 130 million-year-old feather 21 November 2016, By LIBBY PLUMMER FOR MAILONLINE 　　A new breakthrough could enable us to tell what colour dinosaurs were based on their fossils. 　　Researchers have pinpointed the oldest known example of beta-keratin - a common red-orange pigment - in a 130-million-year-old bird feather fossi...   130 million-year-old bird fossil yields keratin, melanosomes Nov. 21, 2016, By Brooks Hays, UPI 　　"This study is the first to demonstrate evidence for both keratin and melanosomes, using structural, chemical and molecular methods," said researcher Yanhong Pan. 　　Researchers found pigment-producing organelles as well keratin, a protein that protects ski...   Cretaceous bird find holds new color clue NOVEMBER 21, 2016, BY MEGHAN ROSEN, ScienceNews 　　OLD BIRD In the feathers of a new specimen of Eoconfuciusornis lies evidence of pigment-containing pods, and the matrix they were embedded in. 　　A 130-million-year-old bird holds a clue to ancient color that has never before been shown in a f...   Beta-keratin discovery in bird feather fossil may help identify paleo color November 21, 2016, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HEADQUARTERS, eurekalert 　　NEW SPECIMEN OF EOCONFUCIUSORNISCOLLECTED FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS LAKE DEPOSITS IN HEBEI, NORTHERN CHINA 　　A team of international scientists led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported recently ...   Keratin and melanosomes preserved in 130-million-year-old bird fossil November 21, 2016, Materials provided by North Carolina State University. ScienceDaily 　　Eoconfuciusornis. Credit: Dr. Xiaoli Wang 　　New research from North Carolina State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Linyi University has found evidence of original keratin and melanosome ...

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