VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Irish researcher key to discovery of new 'feathered' dinosaur

An Irish researcher is a key member of an international team of experts who have discovered the first ever example of a primitive plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales.

The feathers were studied by UCC’s Dr. Maria McNamara along with academics from both the UK and France.

Previously it was believed that only advanced flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have feathers but this ground breaking discovery suggests that all dinosaurs could have had feathers.