The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day avians. A new study found that this group of ancient predators evolved similar ...

Flight was probably more widespread in dinosaurs than previously thought. A newly identified species sheds light on how some ...

The fossilized feather exposed on the surface of the fossilized dinosaur poop. Image credits: O’Connor et al./Current Biology. When a team of researchers finally looked inside the fossilized dropping, ...

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur named Norellraptor barsboldi had sharply curved teeth and claws, as well as four wings, and it adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several times in ...

A small, crow-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago in what is now southeastern China seems to have been a ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...

A Late Jurassic fossil from southeastern China reveals a flightless early bird with markedly short forelimbs, showing that ...

For early birds, evolution wasn't always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery ...

For millions of years, the evolution of flight has been the story of birds. But a remarkable fossil from southeastern China ...

Scientists determined Tyrannosaurus rex had a body temperature around 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit. This was calculated by ...

Though we often imagine dinosaurs as being reptilian monsters, recent research indicates they were actually the feathered ancestors of modern birds—and a new exhibition at the American Museum of ...