A winged-dinosaur related to the birds in your backyard has intrigued paleontologists for more than 160 years. Now, a rare and spectacularly preserved fossil of this creature, known as ...

An illustration of the newly discovered dinosaur species named Jaculinykus yaruui shows it sleeping in a pose similar to that of a modern bird. Seiji Yamamoto Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers created rock art next to dinosaur footprints in what is now Brazil. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works .

The fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur with surprisingly long lower legs has been discovered in China. The creature would have lived during the Late Jurassic Period 148 million to 150 million ...

Life Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird. Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived ...

A newly discovered early bird-like dinosaur species is filling in some of the holes in the dinosaur-to-bird evolutionary story. The new species, named Fujianvenator prodigiosus, has a strange ...

Is it a bird or a dinosaur? Fossils from Teylers Museum in Netherlands secretly visit UK's synchrotron. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter.