Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding ...

Ongoing questions. As well as hunting for more fossils, researchers will need to agree on the precise definition of a dinosaur feather. While feathers belonging to today’s bird species are helpful to ...

Feathers are one of the key traits that all birds share. They're made of a protein called keratin, the same material as our fingernails and hair, and birds rely on them to fly, swim, camouflage ...

Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins New method reveals similarities between dinosaurs and birds Date: September 21, 2023 Source: University College Cork ...

If the same book had been written 25 years ago, for example, dinosaurs that we now know had feathers would have been illustrated as wholly scaly, and paleontologists would have said that we’ll ...

Researchers have long puzzled over how winged dinosaurs ruled the skies – until now. Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to large sail-like “vanes” at the ends of their tails ...

Scientists say a fossil of skin from a dinosaur could help to solve the mystery of how the creatures developed feathers. A team has been studying a fossil from a Psittacosaurus - which is often ...

Now, fossilized skin samples from a psittacosaurus that lived around 130 million years ago have shown that this species had some areas of scaly skin and other areas with feathers.

(CNN) — Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, ...

While the dinosaurs met their end around 66 million years ago in a catastrophic way, their extinction may have been crucial to the development of the human race.

One of the fiercest battles in science rages over the origin of modern birds: Were they descended from dinosaurs or some entirely different long- vanished species? Only a few months ago, opponents ...