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Back in the years of 1970 and 1980, people thought that all dinosaurs had regular skin like the rest of today’s reptiles, like the alligator. Recent fossil finding in 1990 and early 2000 have said a different story. Over a dozen fossils have been found with DNA or fossilization of feathers. The feather fossils were found in China in an area that had been hot with volcanic activity.

This article is important because we have now learn something new about the dinosaur age. The original idea was skin like an alligator, but now we know that this is not true. We can now accurately portray these animals the way they were thousands, not millions, of years ago.

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