Bristles before down: A new perspective on the functional origin of feathers

New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers

(2014) Christian Foth et al.   NATURE

A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales

(2014) P. Godefroit et al.   SCIENCE

Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology

(2012) Meike Köhler et al.   NATURE

Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany

(2012) O. W. M. Rauhut et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Feathered Non-Avian Dinosaurs from North America Provide Insight into Wing Origins

(2012) D. K. Zelenitsky et al.   SCIENCE

Reconstruction ofMicroraptorand the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

(2012) Quanguo Li et al.   SCIENCE

Does mutual sexual selection explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs?

(2011) DAVID W.E. HONE et al.   LETHAIA

Facial bristle feather histology and morphology in New Zealand birds: Implications for function

(2010) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain

(2010) Francisco Ortega et al.   NATURE

Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers

(2010) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

(2009) Xiao-Ting Zheng et al.   NATURE

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

(2009) Dongyu Hu et al.   NATURE

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

(2008) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE