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Thursday, 2 November 2017
Colour patterns of feathered dinosaur fossil
A small feathered dinosaur called
Sinosauropteryx
sported a stripy tail, "bandit mask" across its eyes and a pale belly to help it blend into the background, according to new research. The researchers suggest the bird-like dinosaur that lived 130 million years ago had camouflaging patterns in order
*
to escape being eaten.
* This misrepresents evolutionary theory. Adaptations arise 'because of' ('as a result of'), not 'in order to'. That is, this wording falsely ascribes purpose to evolution instead of reason and result.
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