PBS Eons: The Terrifying Reason Flightless Dinosaurs Grew Feathers

PBS Eons has a new video. This one is about the evolution of feathers.

The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the first place – has been a mystery since they were discovered.

But thanks to what might just be one of the strangest experiments in the recent history of paleontology – involving a makeshift robot-dino – a new hypothesis has emerged…

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