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 not. The ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of the University of New South Wales Press, Ltd."--Title page verso. "The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution's biggest mysteries: how birds gained flight. Hidden within the wrist of a small, feathered dinosaur lies a ...

Thanks to Jurassic Park, velociraptors are the best-known of the bird dinosaurs, known as dromaeosaurs. However, a new member of the dromaeosaur family has been discovered that is far larger than its ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the pioneers, taking to the skies more than ...

The dinosaur’s bones were accompanied by broken bird bones crushed into pellets, strikingly similar to those regurgitated by modern-day owls after consuming prey. This evidence led researchers to ...

A birding guide in Uganda on Saturday captured footage of a prehistoric-looking shoebill flying directly over his group, ...