Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden ...
Science fiction makes it seem like dinosaurs were huge reptiles. But between smaller sizes, feathers, and other factors, they ...
Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...
In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Dakota State University made a recent discovery as part of a research team — courtesy of a little feathered dinosaur more than 100-million-years old. Alex Dececchi is an ...
In the current biological evolution theory, the theory that "birds are the survival of dinosaurs" is powerful, but a paper supporting this was published. The dinosaur tail covered with feather-like ...
A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...
The skeleton had a birdlike skull, a long tail and impressions of what appeared to be feather-like structures. Because of the feathers, Ji Qiang, then the director of the National Geological Museum, ...
A fossil discovered in northeastern China has revealed unusual skin structures in an ornithischian dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. The skin impressions on the specimen are remarkably ...
To be clear, we’re huge fans of the Jurassic Park movies. The franchise is a perfect blend of action and monster movies, full of heart, and sometimes a campy plot or two. It’s important to address ...
When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...