How similar are dinosaurs to modern birds? This question is at the heart of a new study that examined how proteins found in dinosaur feathers changed over millions of years and under extreme heat.

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like reptiles today, thus shedding new light on the evolutionary transition ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ...

Atiny feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern China around 120 million years ago is offering researchers fresh clues about a pivotal chapter in dinosaur evolution. The remarkably ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Fragments of dinosaur-era bird wings have been found preserved in amber before but this is the first time part of a mummified dinosaur skeleton has been discovered, McKellar said. The tail section ...

When you think of dinosaurs, you probably imagine enormous creatures like the Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing prey or massive long ...

(Correction appended: Oct. 26, 2012) 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 ...