People have slowly come around on the idea that dinosaurs actually had feathers, but this tiny dino had some very unique ...

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 ...

In a rare and unexpected discovery, scientists have identified the fossilized tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Dinosaur means “terrible lizard.” The idea that the prehistoric creatures were scaly, sluggish reptiles with sprawling postures that dragged their tails through tropical swamps is deeply ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

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 ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...