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 ...
“These fossils proved once and for all that today’s birds evolved from dinosaurs,” he said. “Today, we know that many had feathers and looked and acted much more like birds.” Before ...
Think of the poor dinosaurs, for instance, who had to put in a fair amount of legwork (quite literally) to find connection.
Feathers are highly complex natural structures and they're key to the success of birds. But they initially evolved in dinosaurs, birds' extinct ancestors. Leading the study, Professor Cheng-Ming ...
A Jurassic Park fan has remade one of the most iconic scenes from the film with scientifically accurate dinosaurs. CoolioArt, ...
When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles ...
Photograph provided by The Wyoming Dinosaur Center Poised like a quill pen, this fossil feather is one among many that are helping paleontologists flesh out the story of Archaeopteryx. The ...
Herring gulls – raptor behaviour? His mentor was one of the people who described some of the very first feathered dinosaurs, discovered in fossil form in China. These “little skeletons of ...
Inside the brain of T. rex: the most fearsome of dinosaurs was smarter than you might think “The discovery of feathered dinosaurs in China in the 1990s totally changed our perception of [them ...