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English[en]
Because Caudipteryx has clear and unambiguously pennaceous feathers, like modern birds, and because several cladistic analyses have consistently recovered it as a nonavian, oviraptorid, dinosaur, it provided, at the time of its description, the clearest and most succinct evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Croatian[hr]
Budući da Caudipteryx ima jasno izraženo kompleksnije perje, kao ono kod današnjih ptica, a i budući da je u raznim analizama smatran kao oviraptorid (a ne ptica), u vrijeme svoga otkrića on je bio najjasniji i najprostiji dokaz da su ptice potekle od dinosaura.