[dinosaur] "Naked" pterosaurs study challenges feather-like structures on skin

Subject: [dinosaur] "Naked" pterosaurs study challenges feather-like structures on skin

From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:42:26 -0700

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A new short paper (2 pages) with no abstract or preview:

David M. Unwin & David M. Martill (2020)
No protofeathers on pterosaurs.
Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01308-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01308-9

The original article was published on 17 December 2018

Yang, Z. et al. Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 4, 24â30 (2019).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0728-7

Free pdf:

https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/6/525/files/2020/06/2019pterosaur.pdf

A Matters Arising to this article was published on 28 September 2020

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Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study were collected from the literature cited and examination of specimens mentioned in the text.

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News release:

Naked prehistoric monsters: Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/naked-prehistoric-monsters

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-naked-prehistoric-monsters-evidence-reptiles.html