One of the first dinosaurs to take to the air had wings with at least one black feather, according to a new study. To determine the color of the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx, scientists used a ...

In the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador, resides the club-winged manakin, a bird that uniquely 'sings' with its wings.

Feathers covered the legs of Archaeopteryx, a creature that lived 150 million years ago and had wings like modern birds but teeth and claws like dinosaurs. A new report argues that Archaeopteryx ...

“We know that feather follicles can do this.” Beipiaosaurus is just one of a host of feathered creatures that have been unearthed in China in recent years (SN: 1/25/03, p. 51; SN: 8/19/00, p ...

Dr Oliver Rauhut from the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, said there is evidence of quill-like feathers all over the creature’s body - not only on the wings ...

The most beautiful aspect of the world we live in is the diversity within our animal kingdom. Birds are particularly colorful ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

It is official. Pterosaurs, the now-extinct flying reptiles that lived between 230 million and 66 million years ago, were covered in feathers. An international team of paleontologists unearthed ...

Perhaps the strangest data point in this story of bird evolution is a little creature named Yi qi. This was a small theropod that arose about 160 million years ago in what is now China, and it had ...

LIFESTYLE Flying Dinosaur From China Had Four Wings And Longest Feathers Ever Seen In Raptors By Fox News Published July 16, 2014 10:16am EDT | Updated January 1, 2017 7:38pm EST Flipboard ...

The creature's four wings consisted of feather-covered arms and legs which may have helped it glide before the evolution of powered flight. :: Otters had wolf-sized ancestors with powerful teeth ...

The new species of dinosaur was identified from a fossil discovered by a farmer in the Hebei Province in northeastern China. Roughly the size of a crow, the creature lived roughly 161 million ...