Fossils of a new species of bird-like dinosaur were found in Utah recently.

 

This meat-eating dinosaur was seven feet tall, and could probably run up to 25 miles per hour. It had powerful arms, a strong toothless beak and threatening claws that fits the large dinosaur for being a predator. For an unknown reason, large feathers grew on its head. "It's quite different from modern birds," Lindsay Zanno, a doctoral student at the University of Utah, said.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060405/ap_on_sc/feathered_dinosaur

wow a seven foot tall christmas dinner. wouldn't like to be the one trying to catch that.

Have they ever found evidense of feathers on dinosaurs before?

Yes, in some fossils.

Have they ever found evidense of feathers on dinosaurs before?

Quite a few species actually. A google search wil bring up a ton of info, but I'd look specifically into Sinosauropteryx and Microraptor, and basically anything new from the dromaeosaur group.

Yeah AP, wasn't the first a Utah bird they called Archaeopterix? Which is a pretty overused name I know.

 

I'm not into dinosaurs. I only know it because my niece was writing a report on it when she was 6.

Yeah AP, wasn't the first a Utah bird they called Archaeopterix? Which is a pretty overused name I know.

It was actually a German "bird," and however much a bird it was, it was still clearly saurian as well.