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 ...

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, with extra connections between the backbone and hips, that all dinosaurs ...

Bird fossils from the Cretaceous (meaning before the asteroid) are limited because it’s hard to fossilise birds. They’re ...

New research on a four-winged dinosaur reveals it was secondarily flightless, with a wing structure and molting pattern.

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds gained flight. Hidden within the wrist of a small, feathered dinosaur lies a ...

Some feathered dinosaurs like Anchiornis huxleyi may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was very complex.

"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 years, the evolution of flight seemed fairly straightforward. Dinosaurs developed feathers, with some learning to glide, ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and palaeontologists are still hunting for pieces of the puzzle today. Among them is the ...