A Four-Winged Bird-Like Dinosaur, With Iriescent Feather and Long Tail

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John Noble Wilford, Feathers Worth a 2nd Look Found on a Tiny Dinosaur; Microraptor was the size of a pigeon, but, oh, that tail. New York Times, Mar 9, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/0 ... crowlike-sheen.html
("New research by American and Chinese scientists shows that [Microraptor, a four-winged dinosaur that lived some 130 million years ago in what is now northeastern China] had a predominantly glossy iridescent sheen in hues of black and blue, like a crow. This is the earliest known evidence of iridescent color in feathers. The animal also had a striking pair of long, narrow tail feathers, perhaps to call attention to itself in courtship. In the study, published online Thursday [yesterday] in the journal Science")