Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding ...

Dinosaur feathers reveal traces of ancient proteins New method reveals similarities between dinosaurs and birds Date: September 21, 2023 Source: University College Cork ...

Feathers are one of the key traits that all birds share. They're made of a protein called keratin, the same material as our fingernails and hair, and birds rely on them to fly, swim, camouflage ...

If the same book had been written 25 years ago, for example, dinosaurs that we now know had feathers would have been illustrated as wholly scaly, and paleontologists would have said that we’ll ...

Now, fossilized skin samples from a psittacosaurus that lived around 130 million years ago have shown that this species had some areas of scaly skin and other areas with feathers.

Thousands of Pachyrhinosaurus dinosaurs lost their lives at the creek almost 73 million years ago, sparking a paleo mystery about what they had been doing before they killed and the cause of their ...

(CNN) — Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, ...

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 ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...

Pterosaurs—fuzzy, flying reptiles that were related to dinosaurs—reigned over the skies more than 50 million years before Archaeopteryx, so it’s not as if Earth weren’t already full of ...

Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.