With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre ...

In a nutshell Scientists temporarily reversed feather evolution in chickens by blocking a key developmental pathway, causing ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

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

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

A University of Calgary paleontologist is part of a discovery of a new species of dinosaur with 30-centimetre-long claws ...

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.

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?

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 ...