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 ...

A Tel Aviv University–led study of 160-million-year-old fossils shows that some feathered dinosaurs likely became flightless, challenging the idea that the evolution of flight followed a linear path ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and set the stage for modern birdlife.

Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight.

Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025.

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than once believed.

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of the University of New South Wales Press, Ltd."--Title page verso. "The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China ...

For more than 100 years, researchers assumed that dinosaurs were like giant lizards: sluggish reptiles that spent most of their day basking in the sun. This image changed when we started to realize ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...