Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx, ...

That part of the leg, the scientists said, allows birds to twist and turn like dinosaurs did tens of millions of years ago. The “fibular reduction” has helped penguins to waddle and turkeys to ...

Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found. The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared ...

the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird ...

“Modern reconstructions of predatory dinosaurs are startlingly bird-like and would have been completely absurd to many nineteenth-century researchers,” Paul says. “Our image of dinosaurs has moved a ...

These “little skeletons of raptor dinosaurs, sheathed in feathers, wings coming out of their arms” were the “final clue that said yes, absolutely, birds really ... tree like that you can ...

Watch our animation. By the start of the Jurassic Period, 201 million years ago, dinosaurs had become the global superstars of the animal kingdom. There were lots of them – and lots of different ...

the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird ...

You look at what features only dinosaurs have, and what features only birds have, and see where a new species fits. However, Pittman says that just like in all of biology, those defining features ...

The specimen, from northern Myanmar, consists of a bird-like skull trapped in 99-million-year-old amber. Writing in the prestigious journal Nature, researchers report that the dinosaur would have ...