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 ...

YOSEF KIAT: So we found that asymmetry of the primary feathers, one of the most important feathers to flying in birds, differ between flying and flightless bird species, with only a little overlap ...

The dinosaur, discovered in China’s Liaoning province, lived about 125 million years ago. Some of its tail feathers were nearly a foot long – the longest ever seen on a flying dinosaur ...

Below you'll see a set of feather illustrations made for the report published this week. Each of these sorts of feather were discovered on the flying dinosaur in the study.

Feathered flying dinosaur with ‘very long fingers’ and wings like a BAT found in China is first of its kind. The newly discovered dinosaur is called Yi qi and probably only weighed 200 grams.

Dinosaurs closely related to birds were feathered. But as paleontologists have dug into the Mesozoic, they've kept finding dinosaurs with protofeathers in different places of the family tree. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...