Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages by Enrique Peñalver, Antonio Arillo, Xavier Delclòs, David Peris, David A. Grimaldi, Scott R. Anderson, Paul C. Nascimbene, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente

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Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages by Peñalver, E, Arillo, A, Delclòs, X, Peris, D, Grimaldi, DA, Anderson, SR, Nascimbene, PC, la Fuente, R

“…Here, we report direct and indirect evidence in 99 million-year-old Cretaceous amber showing that hard ticks and ticks of the extinct new family Deinocrotonidae fed on blood from feathered dinosaurs, non-avialan or avialan excluding crown-group birds. …”

The rise of feathered dinosaurs: Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with ‘feather-like’ structures by Aude Cincotta, Ekaterina B. Pestchevitskaya, Sofia M. Sinitsa, Valentina S. Markevich, Vinciane Debaille, Svetlana A. Reshetova, Irina M. Mashchuk, Andrei O. Frolov, Axel Gerdes, Johan Yans, Pascal Godefroit

Subjects: “…Feathered dinosaurs…”
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Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds by Maria E. McNamara, Fucheng Zhang, Stuart L. Kearns, Patrick J. Orr, André Toulouse, Tara Foley, David W. E. Hone, Chris S. Rogers, Michael J. Benton, Diane Johnson, Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou

“…Here, McNamara and colleagues examine exceptionally preserved skin from feathered dinosaurs and ancient birds from the Cretaceous and show the early acquisition of many skin attributes seen in modern species.…”
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Aerodynamic characteristics of a feathered dinosaur measured using physical models. Effects of form on static stability and control effectiveness. by Dennis Evangelista, Griselda Cardona, Eric Guenther-Gleason, Tony Huynh, Austin Kwong, Dylan Marks, Neil Ray, Adrian Tisbe, Kyle Tse, Mimi Koehl

“…We report the effects of posture and morphology on the static aerodynamic stability and control effectiveness of physical models based on the feathered dinosaur, [Formula: see text]Microraptor gui, from the Cretaceous of China. …”
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New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber by Taiping Gao, Xiangchu Yin, Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Xing Xu, Sha Chen, Chen Wang, Dong Ren

“…Numerous feathered dinosaurs and early birds have been discovered from the Jurassic and Cretaceous, but the early evolution of feather-feeding insects is not clear. …”
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Was dinosaurian physiology inherited by birds? Reconciling slow growth in archaeopteryx. by Gregory M Erickson, Oliver W M Rauhut, Zhonghe Zhou, Alan H Turner, Brian D Inouye, Dongyu Hu, Mark A Norell

“…The first birds were simply feathered dinosaurs with respect to growth and energetic physiology. …”
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RECENT ADVANCES ON THE STUDY OF MESOZOIC MAMMALS FROM CHINA by Yuanqing Wang, Yaoming Hu, Chuankuei Li, Zhenglu Chang

“…Complete skeletons of Zhangheotherium quinquecuspidens Hu et al., a symmetrodont, and Jeholodens jenkinsi Ji et al., an eutriconodont, from the same early Cretaceous lacustrine deposits as those bearing the feathered dinosaurs and the primitive birds, offer new insight into the relationships of the major lineages of mammals and the evolution of the mammalian skeleton. …”
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Hoplitolyda duolunica gen. et sp. nov. (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Praesiricidae), the Hitherto largest sawfly from the Mesozoic of China. by Taiping Gao, Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P Rasnitsyn, Dong Ren

“…Considering the reported ferocious predators of feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs, birds, and mammals coexisting in the same eco-system, Hoplitolyda is an interesting case of "survival of the fittest" in facing its evolutionary challenges.…”
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Mesozoic basins and associated palaeogeographic evolution in North China by Yong-Qing Liu, Hong-Wei Kuang, Nan Peng, Huan Xu, Peng Zhang, Neng-Sheng Wang, Wei An

“…The Yanliao biota of the Middle–Late Jurassic and the Jehol biota of the Early Cretaceous are characterized by feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, mammals, pterosaur, insects and plants (angiosperms). …”
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Encyclopedia of Megafauna and Dinosaurs / by Wadsworth, Mabel, author 648685, Mowery, Juliet, author 648272

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Triassic Revolution by Michael J. Benton, Feixiang Wu

“…On land, ongoing competition between synapsids and archosauromorphs through the Triassic was marked by a posture shift from sprawling to erect, and a shift in physiology to warm-bloodedness, with insulating skin coverings of hair and feathers. Dinosaurs, for example, originated in the Early or Middle Triassic, but did not diversify until after the CPE. …”
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All About Dinosaurs / by Wadsworth, Mabel, author 648685

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