Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.

Recent research suggests that Velociraptor mongoliensis was a feathered dinosaur. A forelimb fossil discovered in Mongolia showed quill knobs like those found in many modern birds. These telltale ...

Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers. Stefen Chow In a pine forest in rural northeastern China, a rugged shale slope is packed with the remains of extinct creatures ...

Small-feathered dinosaurs, though, lacked tertials. Researchers said the discovery of the inner flight wings found in many birds today suggests the tertials evolved specifically for flight.