Nigersaurus - The Niger Lizard

In recent years it has become popular that nigersaurus may have had feathers, but i read an article in which it was told that scientists had managed to recover proteins out of fossilised nigersaurus bones. they compared those to bird proteins and found out that they were almost completly different. so they concluded that nigersaurs are not related to birds, just had a bird-like skeleton….that may also mean that they didn’t have feathers.

Nigersaurus (meaning “Niger lizard”) is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous period, about 119 to 99 million years ago that was described by Paul Seren and colleagues in 1999. It is one of the most common genera found in the rich fossil vertebrate fauna of the Elrhaz Formation, Gadoufaoua, in the Niger Republic, discovered by Philippe Taquet, and described in a paper published in 1976.

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