The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a ...
Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about ...
Zixiao Yang receives funding from the Irish Research Council and Jurassic Foundation. Maria McNamara receives funding from the European Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland. Strong but ...
Paleontologists have found a missing link in the evolution of dinosaur feathers. Along with their signature sharp teeth and gigantic bodies, some feathered dinosaurs also had scaly skin like today ...
Anyone who grew up watching Jurassic Park might think of the Tyrannosaurus Rex as a lumbering, cold-blooded killer. But while T.Rex hasn't gotten any friendly, scientists now say that the 'King of ...
The discovery of a "parrot lizard" fossil could explain how dinosaurs developed feathers. Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin, ...
Studied dinosaur specimen njues-10 under natural (upper half) and UV light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin. (Credit: Zixiao Yang) The question of whether some ...
May 21 (Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one ...
(CNN) — Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and gleaning the answer matters because it illuminates ...
The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago. The new study ...
The discovery of a "parrot lizard" fossil could explain how dinosaurs developed feathers. Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly ...