'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs

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In this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.

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