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One-of-a-kind dinosaur removed from Brazil sparks backlash, investigation
Michael Greshko
The dinosaur
Ubirajara jubatus is the first known non-avian dinosaur with unusually prominent shoulder feathers. The fossil also has sparked controversy amid concern that the fossil s 1995 export from Brazil may have been illegal.
In 1995, a museum in southwestern Germany acquired an unusual fossil from the cream-colored limestone of northeastern Brazil: a 120-million-year-old dinosaur covered in an odd material that one scientist thought might be algae.
Now, 25 years later, scientists have confirmed the predator is one of a kind, the first feathered, non-avian dinosaur found in the Southern Hemisphere and Brazilian scientists are calling for the fossil to be returned from Germany. Since the dinosaur, named ....

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