How did birds evolve? How did feathers and flight appear? After a century of silence, these questions were raised again at the beginning of the 21st century when numerous species of beautifully preserved feathered dinosaur fossils were discovered in Liaoning, China. By mixing images of fossils at the dig sites, ultra-realistic computer graphic reconstructions and interviews with paleontologists, The Mystery of the Feathered Dragons offers the viewer the opportunity to plunge into a modern scientific adventure. During this paleontological investigation, each new fossil helps to complete the puzzle of the transition from dinosaurs to birds and raises fresh questions. How did flight evolve in dinosaurs? Did they run along the ground to take off? Or did they glide from trees to land on their prey? Numerous parallel debates raged in the paleontological community until the discovery of Anchiornis huxleyi in 2009 – the missing link between dinosaurs and birds. More recently, in 2014, a completely new herbivorous dinosaur was dug up in Siberia showing that the presence of feathers went even further back in the dinosaur family tree. In fact, it’s possible that dinosaurs were feathered from the start of their appearance on Earth! Documentary: A New Prehistory EP2: The Mystery of the Feathered Dragons Directed by: Emma Baus & Bertrand Loyer Production: Saint Thomas Productions for ARTE France #freedocumentary #documentary #sciencedocumentary #science #birds #dinosaurs #dragons #pangia #species #evolution #fossil
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38:04 Ummmmmmmmmm
So, some dinosaurs had feathers, but did those feathered dinos have 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔? Many mammalian species have hair-derived eyelashes, but some bird species have feather-derived birdlashes. Did feathered dinos have them???? Inquiring minds cannot stop blinking!¡!
WOW! Thank you! Feathered dinosaurs makes so much more sense.
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That ending was so sad wtf
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Don't get confused, no need to wait endlessly, the missing link between dinosaurs and present day birds is the flying dragon in chinese and european mythical tales..🐲🐉🐉
These documentaries are so well made, and the animations are very engaging. I also enjoy this narrator, who I first heard in the documentary about early mammals.
Awesome ❤
This video is good but there’s a lot of things that irk me. Like the wrist position and the fact that there have been feathered dinosaurs before Anchiornis like kulindromaeus. Feathers are likely ancestral to avemetatarsalia. Also birds ARE dinosaurs
... anyone else concerned about the fact that the CGI dino-birds have their feathers on upside-down...?
A fantastic visualization has reached this level. For the supporters of so-called trees down hypothesis, nothing would be added. This reconstruction is unfortunately nothing but a fairy tale. Four-winged dinosaur/theropod is very likely due to taphonomic effects. Viewing, for instance, microraptor gui as a glider, a transitional form may fit well an arboreal scenario, but the hypothesis is mostly rhetorically presented without substantial materials. M. gui's reconstruction with arboreal ecology is simply tenuous, such that difficulties to support the idea overwhelm. In conclusion, it's a misapplication of a Beebe's original proposal (1915), far-fetched.
Look at the heron in flight, it’s like a terra dactyl..!! Truly a living dinosaur ❤
It makes a lot more sense that they had feathers and were more like birds. Their shapes and skeletal structures look like birds.
Nice Beautiful Nature and You are exactly right Bro 😊
:04 that is some action 🤣
Science fiction
birds are dinosaurs, a sub clade there of. Dinosaurs did not "evolve into" anything. This subclade simply had the ability to survive the cosmic impact that took out the rest of their immediate ancestors.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, buck buck buck
I grew up reading about "terrible lizards", over the years evidence has been brought to light that those "lizards" were more birdlike in design and activity than any lizard. Robert Bakker also proposed that "dinosaurs were warm-blooded, smart, fast, and adaptable". We are stuck with the misleading term "dinosaur".