However, since 2002 paleontologists have unearthed a couple of
other ornithischians with primitive bristle or furlike feathers.
Not exact matches
Their data set had many more
ornithischians — the group that includes Stegosaurus and Triceratops — than
other such analyses; one of the conclusions of that study was that theropods and
ornithischians were more closely related than once thought.
On the
other side of the divide, «bird - hipped»
ornithischians included beaked plant - eaters such as Triceratops.
A November 2017 analysis upheld the traditional view but found that
other arrangements are almost equally likely — including a view that clusters herbivorous
ornithischians and sauropods together.
Now new fossils suggest that the
other major group, the
ornithischians, also bore feathers.
«We had absolutely no idea how the
ornithischian body plan started to develop because they look so different to all the
other dinosaurs.