Microraptors have traits common amongst other therapods ... Velociraptors lived in central and eastern Asia. Flying was not possible for these dinosaurs since their arms were too small, and ...

This estimate followed the discovery that pterosaurs – a flying relative of dinosaurs – may have also had feathers. This suggests that the feature may have been present in the last common ancestor of ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

The bones comprising them were relatively long compared to those of related dinosaurs, and they were ... Like its non-flying close relatives, Microraptor had elongated bones lining the top and ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

It’s impressive, but is flying what feathers first evolved ... that would suggest an ancestor common to both dinosaurs and pterosaurs had feathers, meaning some later groups must have lost ...

So he was thrilled to advise the producers of last year’s Jurassic World: Dominion on what scientists had learned about dinosaurs since he was a child. He was especially happy to see one of the ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and modern crocodiles and their ancestors. These and many other types of ancient reptiles ...