Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx ... in its skeleton that exist only in today’s birds, signs it is indeed ...

When Hokkaido University paleontologist and lead study author Yoshitsugu Kobayashi first saw the fossils the following year, he was immediately surprised that the dinosaur only had two fingers on ...

Their demise left only one dinosaur lineage capable of flight: birds. Just when did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Hard to say. "Deep in evolutionary history, it is extremely difficult to draw the ...

The Yutyrannus' coarse coat was made out of filaments known as proto-feathers, like those found in birds ... other ...

It began in the 1960s with the revolutionary discovery of Deinonychus, a small predatory dinosaur that lived about 115 million years ago. It not only showed unique similarities to birds, but also ...

Today this group is represented by birds ... a dinosaur. If the dinosaurs found in the Ischigualasto Formation are already recognisably dinosaurs, it suggests that their origins are even more ancient.