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Scientists look inside the fossilized stomach contents of a massive dinosaur. And, why some birds listen for prairie dogs’ ...
A new study emphasizes the significance of preserving fossilized soft tissues. A new study published in the journal Biology suggests that ancient dinosaur fossils might help scientists make ...
The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...
Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.
Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...
The result? The feathers stopped growing like they normally do and instead formed simple, tube-like structures that looked just like the earliest proto-feathers in dinosaurs. Scientists believe ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... in dinosaurs. “Archaeopteryx isn’t the first dinosaur to have feathers ...
Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could ... To unravel ...
These simplified structures looked surprisingly similar to what scientists believe dinosaur “proto-feathers” looked like. This change wasn’t permanent. As the embryos continued developing ...
Researchers inhibited a gene during the embryonic development of chickens to observe if it would make their feathers more similar to those of dinosaurs. Here, feather buds are seen on the 12th day of ...
By inhibiting the key gene Sonic Hedgehog at the stage of embryonic development, scientists have managed to make chicken feathers more similar to the tubular proto-feathers that probably first ...