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

originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE ...

Died 30,000 years ago, discovered 136 years ago and disrupting the field of palaeontology just this week – the surprising ...

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

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 ...

For some species at least, such as the small feathered dinosaur Anchiornis, we have the fossils, and we have the techniques. We just need to extract the data from the dinosaur fossils we have.

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

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 ...