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the nodosaur found in Alberta doesnt seem to have had feathers.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dinosaur-fossil-has-been-...

Neither does a tortoise. It doesn't seem like growing armor is conducive to producing feathers on top of it.

And as you likely know, these are dinosaur contemporaries who are from that general lineage. So great example.

"The earliest fossils are from the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, in the late Triassic."

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