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'Rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird

There’s not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There’s an iridescent dinosaur.

Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a crow-sized, bird-like dinosaur with colourful feathers from northeastern China that lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

They named it Caihong, the Mandarin word for rainbow. Microscopic structures in

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