Dinosaur feathers found trapped in Burmese amber have shed new light on the evolution of flight feathers, an essential step that allowed early birds to surpass their dinosaur relatives in ...

It lived during the Jurassic period in modern-day China and is known for having four long feathers in its tail. I f we’re speaking of creatures that are still living, we would say that the smallest ...

A polished piece of amber from Myanmar has revealed one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent years– an exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaur tail dating back nearly 99 million ...

GENEVA — From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather. Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing ...

While feathers belonging to today’s bird species are helpful to refer to, millions of years separate them from those of the ... Beetles may have eaten dinosaur feathers and lived in their nests. The ...

The fossil fills a 70-million-year gap in our understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds ...

In other words, we can be sure these are dino feathers and not those of a bird. ... “This is the first time we've found dinosaur material preserved in amber," McKellar told BBC News at the time.

Scientists in South Korea built a robotic dinosaur and used it to startle grasshoppers to learn more about why dinosaurs evolved feathers, according to a recent paper published in the journal ...

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 ...

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.

Earlier studies found that dinosaur feathers were mostly composed of alpha-keratin, which makes feathers less stiff, whereas bird feathers consist of beta-keratin, which makes them stronger. However, ...