An international team of researchers has published a groundbreaking study in Nature, revealing that early reptiles from the ...

A set of 70-million-year-old fossils from southern Alberta has added weight to theories that dinosaurs may have first sprouted feathers to show off, not take off.

Now, a team of scientists from Canada and China has discovered a new species of feathered troodontid dinosaur, the Jianianhualong tengi, believed to have lived about 125 million years ago.

A new dinosaur discovered in China had feathers that may have glittered with the colors of the rainbow. Based on its stunningly preserved remains, scientists say the dinosaur’s head and chest ...

I think this just provides fossil evidence for wing feathers not initially evolving for flight." Feathered dinosaurs were first discovered in the late 1990s.

“For every feathered dinosaur you get, you tend to find non-feathered dinosaurs. It’s a mixed bag across the dinosaur family tree,” Mallon says.

A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China. The one-of-a-kind specimen preserves feathers and bones that provide new information about how dinosaurs grew and how they ...

Vinther now thinks that dinosaur skins likely sported all sorts of complex bristles and feathers, "all the way back to the common ancestor of dinosaurs." Perhaps this even includes the flying ...

During the Jurassic period, some feathered dinosaurs — including the 160-million-year-old, crow-size Anchiornis huxleyi — were downright fluffy, unlike many of their sleek, modern bird ...

The feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning have many features in common with birds and not only feathers. They have a primitive wishbone, the bone in the chest that braces the body against the flight ...

The finding suggests that most dinosaurs had feathers, which they used for insulation or attracting mates, only later relying on the fringes for flight, according to a study detailed today (July ...