Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...
GENEVA — From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather. Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing chicken ...
How similar are dinosaurs to modern birds? This question is at the heart of a new study that examined how proteins found in dinosaur feathers changed over millions of years and under extreme heat.
Recent research from the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri shed new light on how the evolution of skull flexibility in dinosaurs led to the diverse array of modern birds we see ...
(WHTM) — For decades it was the accepted wisdom-all dinosaurs walked around buck nekkid. Artists’ conceptions, movies, illustrations in scientific articles, in fact just about everywhere you looked, ...
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 ...
Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...
Modern science has discovered that dinosaurs had all sorts of feathers or protofeathers, something that’s at odds with the common depiction of them in media. Exoprimal is one of those pieces of media ...
Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in ...
A group of researchers led by Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences analyzed Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, a Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia that had both ...
A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Dinosaurs are coming to Harrisburg this weekend as Jurassic Quest will be at the Farm Show. “Jurassic Quest is the largest interactive dinosaur exhibit. It’s traveling the ...