Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These 'rules' provide clues as to how the dinosaur ...

Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University What are the origins of wings and tails in birds? This is one of the key questions in the evolution of animals. It has long ...

Early dinosaurs' surprising ability to tolerate freezing temperatures and long, harsh winters may have been what allowed them to dominate Earth's land environments after the end-Triassic extinction, a ...

Feathers may have evolved on dinosaurs to frighten and flush out prey before they were used for flight, say researchers who built a winged robot and used it to scare grasshoppers. Pennaceous feathers, ...

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers. Stefen Chow In a pine forest in rural northeastern China, a ...

It’s hard to imagine birds without their feathers. From the vibrant coats of tropical parrots to the rainbow of browns worn by sparrows and house finches, feathers make it possible for birds to fly, ...

A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China. The one-of-a-kind specimen preserves feathers and bones that provide new information about how dinosaurs grew and how they differed ...

Researchers have described ten fossil feathers from the polar regions of the former continent Gondwana for the first time. The collection, documented in a recent paper in Gondwana Research, contains a ...

Dinosaurs ruled the earth during the Jurassic period. But first, they had to make it through the end of the world. Most geologists suspect enormous volcanic eruptions were to blame for the mass ...

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 ...