For a feathered dinosaur that has influenced expert opinion on why dinosaurs evolved feathers in the first place, see: Hu, D., L. Hou, et al. 2009. A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China...

For a feathered dinosaur that has influenced expert

opinion on why dinosaurs evolved feathers in the

first place, see:

Hu, D., L. Hou, et al. 2009. A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus. Nature 461:

640–643.

Witmer, L. M. 2009. Palaeontology: Feathered dinosaurs in a tangle.

Nature 461: 601–602.

For a reconstruction of the color of this dinosaur’s

feathers, see:

Li, Q., K. Q. Gao, et al. 2010. Plumage color patterns of an extinct

dinosaur. Science 327: 1369–1372.