The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx, and in ...

But archaeopteryx went extinct and is not the ancestor of modern birds, just one of many feathered dinosaurs that resembled birds. Science’s obsession with archaeopteryx was a bit of a diversion and ...

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The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...

(Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one revealed ...

Studied dinosaur specimen NJUES-10 under natural (upper half) and UV light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin. Scientists discover ‘zoned development’ in dinosaur ...

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A group of researchers led by Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences analyzed Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, a Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia that had both ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide ...

The notion of a dinosaur with Cher-like hair is entertaining. It's also outlandish, according to experts. Paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's Field ...

The notion of a dinosaur with Cher-like hair is entertaining. It's also outlandish, according to experts. Paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's Field ...