Current Affairs 21st January 2018

Current Affairs 21st January 2018 - Important Points

• With rainbow feathers researchers discovered - Tiny bird like dinosaur

Current Affairs 21st January 2018 - Details

With rainbow feathers researchers discovered - Tiny bird like dinosaur

A 161 million-year-old fossils of a tiny bird-like dinosaur was discovered by Researchers. It was named as Caihong juji from China.

Significance of the Discovery

• The dinosaur has features, which are both ancient and modern.

• The bony crest is a feature usually seen in dinosaurs from earlier eras, while its neck feathers show evidence of microscopic wide, flat, pigment-containing packages, or melanosomes, which may represent the first known occurrence of iridescence similar to that found in a variety of hummingbird species living today.