The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx ...
A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers. While this includes all species of birds, there is a hypothesis that many, if not all non-avian dinosaur species also possessed ...
Feathers are highly complex natural structures and they're key to the success of birds. But they initially evolved in dinosaurs, birds' extinct ancestors. Leading the study, Professor Cheng-Ming ...
They say it's the earliest example of iridescent colour in dinosaur feathers - suggesting that the feathers were used for display to attract mates, as many of today's birds do. Iridescence is ...
That was likely true for a large portion of them, but more recent discoveries suggest that there were also many dinosaurs that sported feathers. In a new paper published in Gondwana Research ...
Many features and behaviours that characterise living birds were also found in their dinosaur ancestors. Perhaps most surprising of all was the discovery of dinosaurs with feathers. It completely ...