Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Volunteer fossil hunters and trained paleontologists uncover a new Australian dinosaur and the oldest known megaraptorid.

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

At last there was evidence of truly primitive feathers—found on a ground-running theropod. In short, the origin of feathers may have had nothing to do with the origin of flight. Soon ...

DINOSAUR hunters have made a spectacular discovery which sheds new light on a giant “mega raptor” that stalked the Earth 120 million years ago. Palaeontologists in Australia came ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned ...

Although the vast majority of feather discoveries have been in coelurosaurian theropods, feather-like integument has also been discovered in at least three ornithischians, suggesting that feathers may ...

During the course of their evolutionary history, the body size of some theropod groups gradually decreased. This trend, together with many other changes to the skeleton, ultimately led to the ...

Theropod dinosaurs, which also include smaller dinosaurs ... collagen proteins preserved for millions of years. The feathers on chickens, as well as their lightweight skeletal structure and ...