#plumadraco — Public Fediverse posts

Feathered dragon has some of the longest tail feathers ever found on a fossil bird https://phys.org/news/2026-05-feathered-dragon-longest-tail-feathers.html

Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early #Cretaceous enantiornithine bird https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0347641

"#Plumadraco was the size of an American robin, but its tail feathers were twice the length of its body... some of the proportionally longest tail feathers ever found in a fossil... #birds have been evolving costly, elongate, specialized features to attract mates for a long time"