This implies that dinosaurs may have retained their scaly reptile skin during the early days of feather evolution. "Collectively, the fossil evidence supports partitioning of skin development in ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at Chicago’s Field Museum, tells the New York Times’ Asher Elbein.That’s because fossils ...