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China’s Liaoning Province: Where Feathered Dinosaurs First Came to Light

Snow-dusted fields, flat slabs of gray rock, and a whisper of ash – Liaoning didn’t look like the place that would rewrite the origin story of birds. Yet in the late twentieth century, farmers splitting shale for hearthstones began revealing delicate halos around small dinosaur skeletons: impressions of filaments and feathers that seemed too good ...