Dinosaur feathers and flight, with Luis Chiappe | Natural History Museum’s Curiosity Show

Birds are living dinosaurs, but there was a long evolutionary path from small dinosaurs into today’s birds. Dinosaur Institute Director Dr. Luis Chiappe tells us about how and when feathers and flight evolved, and even how we can tell from fossils the types of flight used by early birds.

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