Did Some ���Feathered Dinosaurs��� Have ���Birdlike Skin���?

���Study: Some Feathered Dinosaurs Had Reptile-Style Scales and Bird-Like Skin with Feathers.��� Has a new study really proven, as the headline suggests, that so-called feathered dinosaurs had both reptile and birdlike skin? Well, not quite!

This study looked at the fossilized skin of the ���feathered��� dinosaur Psittacosaurus under UV light and examined it microscopically (amazingly the skin was so well-preserved that the researchers could examine the various layers and cells of the skin). One...