A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant ... But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some cases, traces of melanosomes – cell ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Far from crazy, feathered dinosaurs have become a well-established fact, thanks largely to a trove of remarkable fossils that were unearthed in northeast China since the mid-1990s. Now Brusatte ...

However, some dinosaur species were actually covered in feathers, just like birds today. We know this because some fossils from creatures such as Archaeopteryx and Sinosauropteryx — both ...