Dinosaur With Iridescent Feathers

Caihong jugi means “rainbow with the big crest”, and it’s the name of a duck-sized dinosaur found in China. The detailed fossil showed a Jurassic period dinosaur covered in shaggy plumage with a long skull and fan-shaped tail. Preserved melanosomes like a hummingbird’s mean it had brightly colored iridescent feathers!

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