Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted ...

But its position on the evolutionary tree is debated because, despite having feathered ... the reduction of the tail constitutes the most dramatic change during the dinosaurs-bird transition ...

Fragments of skin from the tail region more strongly resembled the skin of modern birds. This implies that dinosaurs may have ...

It had sparse single filaments along its tail. It's not clear why filaments appear in some dinosaur lineages but not in others. "One possibility is that feather-like structures evolved very early ...

The embryo was found in a "tucking" position—its head bent forward, feet positioned on either side, and back curved ...

Zelenitsky has co-authored over 50 different publications and was part of a team that first found evidence of feathered dinosaurs in North ... from the tip of its tail to its nose.

A University of Calgary paleontologist is part of a discovery of a new species of dinosaur with 30-centimetre-long claws found in a Mongolian desert.