The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a ...
Analysis of birds’ feathers could reveal which dinosaurs were capable of flight, a new study has found. Scientists have for a long time struggled to understand the differences between the wings and ...
Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about ...
The discovery of a "parrot lizard" fossil could explain how dinosaurs developed feathers. Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin, ...
We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues ... [+] are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are ...
Scientists have discovered a new 120 million-year-old dinosaur skin fossil that suggests the extinct reptile had both ‘scales and bird-like skin with feathers’. Palaeontologists at University ...
Luis Chiappe (Self - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)Philip Currie (Self - Royal Tyrell Museum)Jeff David (Self - Narrator)Steve Gatesy (Self - Brown University)Jacques Gauthier (Self ...
This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...
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 only ...
Dinosaur means "terrible lizard." The idea that the prehistoric creatures were scaly, sluggish reptiles with sprawling postures that dragged their tails through tropical swamps is deeply imprinted ...
The discovery of a "parrot lizard" fossil could explain how dinosaurs developed feathers. Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly ...