Recent research suggests that Velociraptor mongoliensis was a feathered dinosaur. A forelimb fossil discovered in Mongolia showed quill knobs like those found in many modern birds. These telltale ...

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 ...

These “little skeletons of raptor dinosaurs, sheathed in feathers, wings coming out of their arms” were the “final clue that said yes, absolutely, birds really did evolve from dinosaurs ...

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 ...

But dinosaurs don’t roar like a lion. They’re related to birds. Which means their voice box was probably similar to a bird’s. Raptors had wings. First of all, raptor hands didn’t droop ...

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 ...

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 ...