May 21 (Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one ...

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The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at ...

We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are one of nature’s ...

Netflix is not exactly known for doing things on a modest scale, and their most recent foray into natural history, The Dinosaurs, is no different.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and discovered they were housing species unknown to science. Between recent ...

In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

Perhaps it was soft, even fuzzy. But it was also very much a dinosaur. Anchiornis was a four-winged birdlike species that lived about 160 million years ago, and many fossil specimens have been found ...