Weird dinosaurs. The strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew / Странные динозавры. Странные новые окаменелости бросают вызов всему, что, как мы думали, мы знали

On a recent afternoon spent in London’s Natural History Museum (NHM), I noticed that a life-size animatronic Velociraptor had finally sprouted feathers. They might have been a touch sparse compared to the plumage of counterparts in museums elsewhere, but it was encouraging to see them there. A few years earlier, the Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family exhibition at the Australian Museum in Sydney had featured not only wonderful feathered fossils from China, but also models of shaggy carnivores that could have been swiped from Jim Henson’s workshop yet were still creepy enough to strike fear into the hearts of gobsmacked kids. <...>