Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

On03, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The 130-million-year-old fossil ...

Rex, but it has feathers! Meet the Cryolophosaurus, the oldest known tetanuran and the only specimen from the Early Jurassic Period. This giant tetrapod dinosaur had a characteristic bizarre crest on ...

WASHINGTON — Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight ...

Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium Marketing & Communications Manager Emily Adlfinger talks ...

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 ...

In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield ...

NEW YORK — A beautifully preserved fossil from southern Germany raises questions about how feathers evolved from dinosaurs to birds, two paleontologists argue in a study published today. The ...

(Craig R. Smith) King crabs have come to the Antarctic shelf. Frigid water kept them away for millions of years, but now the region is warming up, says Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii, who ...