The first discovery of a bat-like winged dinosaur was in 2015, but scientists had dismissed the initial finding because it ...

Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

For several years scientists have unveiled an average of about 50 new dinosaur species a year, a pace unthinkable decades ago. The updated menagerie ranges from pint-size fliers with bat wings to ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

A butterfly beating its wings can alter the trajectory of the universe, or so they say. So it’s only natural that an event as pivotal as the extinction of the dinosaurs could have some pretty ...