• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.579-584
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• 2006

A fossil feather found from the Late Pleistocene sediments of Jeju Island, Korea is described. The sediments deposited in a shallow marine environment yielded numerous footprints of diverse birds and mammals including hominids. A fossil feather well-preserved as a thin white film on the light gray mudstone is part of a vaned flight one. Although the specimen is relatively small in size (10.3 mm long and 9.0 mm wide), a rachis with two flat vanes and nearly parallel curved barbs with numerous proximal and distal barbules are well preserved. The specimen represents the first record of a fossil feather from Korea and is also the first record of feather from the Pleistocene deposits in the world.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.5 s.444
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• pp.10-13
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• 2006

몸에 좋은 지방 가진 돼지 개발/ 국제연구팀, 중성미자 질량 재확인/ NASA, 2009년 달 충돌실험/ 직립원인과 현생인류 중간의 두개골 발견/ 곤충의 美경제 기여, 年 570억 달러 이상/ 공룡 멸종 소행성 충돌시기 논란/ 깃털 진화이론 뒤집는 쥐라기 화석 발견/ 남극권 기온상승 타지역의 3배/ '딥 임팩트'로 드러나는 혜성의 비밀/ 물을 위로 흐르게 하는데 성공/ 뇌세포-컴퓨터칩 결합시킨 '뉴로칩' 개발

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.167-180
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• 2022

Aves including chickens are currently one of the most representative vertebrates on the planet. More than 10,000 bird species are distributed among various regions around the world. Dinosaurs, which evolved from archosaurs, were once assumed to have gone extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleozoic extinction period. Since the mid-1990s, abundant dinosaur fossils have been found in China and various other parts of the world. Research articles on phylogenetic, evolutionary, and genomic studies of fossil taxa show that birds are living theropod dinosaurs. This review describes the link between birds and dinosaurs based on studies of their skeletal structures, feathers, respiratory organs, chromosomes, and metabolism. Birds are the only theropod dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs did not go extinct and we are still living in the age of the dinosaurs.