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in paleontology are used to showing pieces of rubble, "says Norell. "This fossil is fantastic." Under a microscope, the herringbone pattern of feathers can clearly be seen sprouting from the creature's arms, he says. Scientists say the dinosaur didn't fly because the forearms aren't long enough in relation to the rest of the body.Still SkepticalDespite the new find, a small group of paleontologists remain skeptical that birds evolved from dinosaurs because the feathered dinosaur fossils don't predate the time when birds are said to have evolved, which most scientists say is about 150 to 180 million years ago. Alan Feduccia, a paleontologist at the University of North Carolina, is one a few paleontologists who reject the bird-from-dino theory."A lot of things look like feathers," he says. "Where ever birds came from, it's much earlier [than the new fossil]. There's this timing problem."