The drawing is based on the study of exceptionally-preserved feathers from a creature called Anchiornis, a bird-like dinosaur that seems to be a "rough draft" of avian flight. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

A fossilized feather found 159 years ago in Germany has returned to the paleontological spotlight, with new research declaring the feather as having come from the bird-like Archaeopteryx, much to ...

Drawings of dinosaurs show them in all sorts of hues, usually duller Earth tones such as brown and gray, but scientists have only speculated on their coloring. As their connection to birds came to ...

A new fossil of a four-winged dinosaur about the size of a pigeon shows he apparently sported quite the costume, complete with glossy black feathers and a tail tipped with a pair of decorative ...

For instance, the largest known feathered dinosaur, a 23-foot-long tyrannosaur that lived 125 million years ago known as Yutyrannus huali, changes the popular image of its most iconic relative.

Art by Carl Buell, courtesy of Nicholas Longrich How did feathered dinosaurs take to the air? Paleontologists have been investigating and debating this essential aspect of avian evolution for over ...

The Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, had feathers with a glossy iridescent sheen. It also had a narrow tail adorned with a pair of streamer ...

Drawings of dinosaurs show them in all sorts of hues, usually duller Earth tones such as brown and gray, but scientists have only speculated on their coloring. As their connection to birds came to ...