Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with ...

The scientists knew the tail came from a dinosaur and not an average bird due to ... meaning that the feathers were more likely to be ornamental than for flight. The amber also preserved ...

Bird feathers and reptile scales contain melanosomes—tiny sacs holding varieties of the pigment melanin. Many paleontologists suspected that dinosaur feathers also contained melanosomes.

The discovery that Deinonychus had feathers helped transform the way we think about dinosaurs. New work on old specimens, and the discoveries of dinosaur and early bird species in the field, supported ...

Dinosaur researcher Prof Paul Barrett fills us in. The premise of the Jurassic Park film franchise is an elegant one: that dinosaur DNA, preserved in the guts of ancient mosquitoes trapped in amber ..

The plumage on its wings is based on actual fossil feathers (like the one ... the standard notion of a modern bird and classic images of a predatory dinosaur. Ostriches descend from a group ...