OVERVIEW ON DANDRUFF The word dandruff in the scientific papers used since it is a term usually applied to skin flakes between the hair of humans," says Michael J. Benton Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology University of Bristol. Nobody really observe dandruff while it is forming, trapped between shafts of feathers in the fossil birds and dinosaurs. These are tiny flakes of surface skin, measuring 1 to 2 millimeters. The The dandruff probably evolved during the Middle Jurassic period, during which there was a bloom in new feathery dinosaur species. A new thing came to know after the discovery of some 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff fossils. These findings aren't just excuse, but actually explain the mechanism by which dinosaurs did something nearly universal talks about the way the skin sheds. Probably nobody thought much about how dinosaurs shed their skin before these new findings. Let us acknowledge about dinosaurs that were like birds shed their skin in small flakes. All animals rid themselves of old skin and feathers and hair, But during the collective work done using regular and electron microscopes, the close examination on coming across strange white blobs located all over the feathers. Upon further study with the help of ion beam microscope (which revealed the internal structure of the flakes), it was identified that the tiny spots as corneocytes tough cells composed of twisted fibers of keratin, mainly found in modern birds as well as human dandruff. The dinosaurs, in contrast, possess more tightly packed corneocytes that are not as freely shed. This finding was a "groundbreaking" as we've never had such clear insight into the skin of feathered dinosaurs before. The study declares yet another shared feature between non-avian dinosaurs and birds, and its particularly exciting to see these similarities in most regions of the anatomy all the way down to the micro structural level.
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