Analysis of birds’ feathers could reveal which dinosaurs were capable of flight, a new study has found. Scientists have for a long time struggled to understand the differences between the wings and ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how ...

This is because it was a dinosaur—one that evolved long after the first known bird, Archaeopteryx, split off from the dinosaur family tree. Earlier dinosaurs, common ancestors to both ...

If it can be proven that D. rarus could fly, that would prove that feathered dinosaurs besides the avian lineage could fly. The researchers suggest that it is also possible that D. rarus ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth ... But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects’ softer bodies don’t preserve well in the fossil record, the ...

The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn't like the ...

The bones comprising them were relatively long compared to those of related dinosaurs, and they were partially fused together. In modern birds, these bones are totally fused and, due to their ...