"It couldn't fly, but it may have been able to strut like no other creature in Jurassic times. Chinese scientists say they have found evidence of what may be the oldest known animal with plumage designed to attract the opposite sex ...No bigger than a pigeon, it lived between 152 million and 168 million years ago, during the middle-to-late Jurassic age, in Inner Mongolia."
From the article "Dinosaur's fancy feathers helped to get the birds" by Richard Macey October 23, 2008 in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Excuse me, but don't you mean helped 'beget' the birds ...?
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