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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide ...

The notion of a dinosaur with Cher-like hair is entertaining. It's also outlandish, according to experts. Paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's Field ...