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A dramatic feathered dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic of China resolves a 'temporal paradox'. But it adds intriguing complications to the debates on the evolution of feathers and flight in birds.

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Figure 1: Anchiornis huxleyi in context.

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  1. Lawrence M. Witmer is in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA. witmerL@ohio.edu,
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Witmer, L. Feathered dinosaurs in a tangle.Nature 461, 601–602 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461601a

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