At a glance, the dinosaur looks like an ostrich with a long tail and clawed hands. But it wasn’t until 2012 that paleontologists announced that they’d finally found the dinosaur’s feathers.

A new analysis makes the best case yet that the Jurassic plume came from an iconic feathered dinosaur. This exquisitely preserved 150-million-year-old feather, the first ever discovered, was found ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated ...

About 67 million years ago, a feathered raptor dinosaur with the grace and hunting skills of a cheetah took down prey with grasping sickle-like claws. The fossils of the newly discovered dinosaur ...

Dinosaur Fossil Shines Light on Evolution of Feathers Published May 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM EDT Updated May 22, 2024 at 1:11 PM EDT By Jess Thomson ...

Discover the mysterious Cryolophosaurus, a 21-foot feathered predator from the Early Jurassic Period. This strange dino resembled a T-rex in shape but sported a distinctive crest and feathers ...

Remember, all birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs evolved into birds. Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum wanted to figure out if there was a way to tell if a dinosaur could fly or not. They ...

An artist's illustration of an anchiornis, a birdlike dinosaur with four wings that lived 160 million years ago. Fossils found in China demonstrate the evolution of feathers in modern birds.

There was that annoying exception, the fully feathered Archaeopteryx, discovered in 1860. But it was considered a sort of proto-bird, already evolved away from dinosaur ancestors.

Scientists in South Korea built a robotic dinosaur and used it to startle grasshoppers to learn more about why dinosaurs evolved feathers, according to a recent paper published in the journal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide ...

The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx ...