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  • Current Affairs 21st January 2018

    Updated : 22-Jan-2018
    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.

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