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However, the fossil really stands out because, in a rare stroke of luck for paleontologists, its bony vocal organs were ...
Pulaosuarus’ throat seems somewhere between the two. Its vocal structures appear to be similar to that of another dinosaur, ...
A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by films like Jurassic Park. A newly identified dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus ...
Scientists in China report the discovery of a new dinosaur species that might have sounded like a bird. Researchers ...
Even though dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago, their story isn’t completely over. Some signs of that ancient time ...
A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...
In birds, as well as other dinosaurs like Velociraptor, the bumps have been classified as quill knobs where ligaments help anchor feathers. Not all experts agree with this interpretation.
But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered ...
Birds are descended from a diverse group of two-legged dinosaurs called theropods, which included giant, meat-eating predators like Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the smaller 3-foot-long (1 meter ...
The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe as more reptilian-like than modern birds, were about the size of a crow. More: What lies at the center of the Earth?
Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some ...