Dinosaurs Once Had Furs and Feather Covering Their Body, Study Finds Evidence of Bird-Like Features We have learned about ...

A new study measuring the cognitive skills of paleognaths – the small-brained, generally flightless, and more stereotypically dinosaur-like class of birds that includes ostriches, emus ...

The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe ... more reptilian traits and a long tail similar to that of a velociraptor, researchers today believe the Baminornis’ light ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T.

The ability to fly evolved in the branch of dinosaurs that gave rise to birds, as well as in another closely related group – the dromaeosaurs, more popularly known as raptors. The traits that enabled ...

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 across the oldest ...

in pre-modern birds and near-bird dinosaurs like Velociraptor, these areas are proportionally much smaller. While Vegavis has features that clearly mark it as being in the same group of waterfowl ...

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent. At such a critical moment ...

And some Velociraptor fossils have tiny bumps on their arm bones where feathers were attached, just like in modern birds. At first, paleontologists thought only theropod dinosaurs had feathers.