Feathered dinosaur

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/feathered-dinosaur

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the conservation status?N/A (Extinct)
2. What did scientists discover about dinosaurs and feathers?Scientists found that many dinosaurs had fluffy, colorful feathers, not just scaly skin.
3. Why do we think dinosaurs were warm‑blooded and feathered?Fossil evidence shows feathers and suggests dinosaurs were warm‑blooded, moving away from the cold‑blooded reptile idea.

Dinosaur Renaissance: A period of renewed scientific interest and discovery in dinosaur paleontology starting in the late 1960s.
Theropoda: A major clade of bipedal, mostly carnivorous dinosaurs, considered the direct ancestors of birds.
Ornithoscelida: A proposed dinosaur clade encompassing both theropods and ornithischians, suggesting feathers may have been present in their common ancestor.