The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists. Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen, the ...

In 2016, a team of scientists discovered a dinosaur tail, with its bones, tissues, feathers, and all preserved in amber. It was believed to be about 99-million-years-old at the time of its discovery.

This is the 100 million-year-old skull of the tiniest-known dinosaur. "When I first saw this specimen, it really blew my mind ...

The rare feathers locked in amber described in a new study is the first definitive fossil evidence of juvenile molting – but interestingly, the baby bird’s life history doesn’t match the ...

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In 2019, fossil analyses found that feathers from a flightless dinosaur mostly contained a different, more flexible form of the keratin protein that makes up modern bird beaks, scales and feathers.

The amber-preserved feathers in this study are the first definitive fossil evidence of juvenile molting, and they reveal a baby bird whose life history doesn't match any birds alive today.

Like a bird, Archaeopteryx had broad feathered wings, and like a dinosaur it had sharp teeth and a long bony tail. In the 1990s, paleontologists working in China found fossils of dinosaurs with ...

This fossil represented a roughly 150-million-year-old missing link between reptiles and birds, possessing not only wings and feathers but also teeth, a long tail, and claws on its wing joints.

Soft, more bird-like skin may have initially developed only in feathered regions of the dinosaur body. The rest of the skin would have been more scaly like in modern reptiles, according to the team .

Dinosaur feathers are more similar to modern bird feathers than researchers expected. (Image credit: Tiffany Slater) This year researchers reanalyzed fossilized feathers from several non-avian ...