The first discovery of a bat-like winged dinosaur was in 2015, but scientists had dismissed the initial finding because it ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

The finding helps scientists answer longstanding questions about when birds began to diversify into the flying animals we think of today. More: A dinosaur museum in an unlikely place Edward ...

Now Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today – an evolutionary mystery that ...

Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than 150 million years ago in the Jurassic Period. The ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T.

Today, researchers agree that birds are technically dinosaurs — the only ones to ... which permits more physically demanding activities — like flying — but requires more calories to maintain.

They found that when birds evolve from a flying ancestor to a new flightless ... to determine whether a fossil bird, or a feathered dinosaur that isn't part of the bird family, was able to fly.

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from ... in the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous ...