Carl Zimmer | National Geographic | 18 January 2011
Why did birds get feathers? Not to help them fly. Their ancestors, dinosaurs, also had feathers. As, perhaps, did reptiles. Evolution may have favoured feathers mainly for insulation, or sexual selection, or camouflage Read full article
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