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Columbia Climate School

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Study coauthor Paul Olsen at the site where the first feathered non-avian dinosaur was found, in 1996. It had excellently preserved filamentous feathers, showing that non-bird dinosaurs developed them first for insulation, not flight.

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Paul Olsen

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