最终，成行的浓密互连羽支形成了平滑表面：即现代鸟类的羽翮结构基本形成。
Eventually, dense rows of interlocking barbs formed a flat surface: the basic blueprint of the so-called pennaceous feathers of modern birds.
在显微镜下观察翠鸟的长羽支，这些比人类头发质地更好的毛发一直闪烁着，让人联想起加勒比的风光。
Under a microscope each long kingfisher barb, finer than a human hair, glitters with shades of the Caribbean.
拖着四根缎带般的硕长尾羽，羽片上还排列着羽支，体型只有鸽子大小的耀龙为我们提供了恐龙利用绚丽羽毛进行展示的最早证据。
Sporting a quartet of long, ribbonlike feathers with barbs arranged in vanes, pigeon-size Epidexipteryx may provide the earliest evidence of a dinosaur flaunting its feathers for display.
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