Since the 1960s, fossil discoveries have confirmed the scientific consensus that birds evolved from the group of predatory ...

Here’s a list of select feathery dinosaurs and what their feathers can tell us about their lives. Sinosauropteryx First described in 1996, Sinosauropteryx was a revelation to paleontologists.

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A new carnivore has come to town — 165 million years ago at least. The Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, a new species and genus of theropod dinosaur, has been discovered in Kyrgyzstan by an expedition ...

The ancient species is called Tameryraptor markgrafi and it is a member of a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs called Carcharodontosauridae. 3. Tameryraptor markgrafi fossil bones on display.

Birds that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, reminders of a distant and strange past. Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct ...

O'Connor is a dinosaur paleobiologist and the associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum of Chicago. She specifically studies theropods, a group of two-legged dinosaurs that includes ...

One study published in 2022 found that some of the oldest known avemetatarsalians — the ancestors of birds, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs — did not have traces of air sacs. Neither did ornithischians, one ...

Real predatory dinosaurs like the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex may have looked quite a bit different than their movie star counterparts—and not just because they had feathers. Theropods like the T ...