A new discovery in southern China begs the understanding of evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs. The fossilized ...

How did this unlikely legacy unfold? Let’s journey through time and discover how evolution built a bird from the bones of a dinosaur. Long before chickens clucked in barnyards, their ancestors ...

"If you looked at an artist's reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered theropod dinosaur very closely related to birds, you would see that it pretty much ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

The study raises the possibility that dinosaur feathers may have mainly contained the beta-keratin proteins found in bird feathers. While such a finding would not imply all feathered dinosaurs ...

The modern bird hip is decidedly different from its dinosaur ancestors. For example, in birds, the pubis — either of a pair of bones forming the two sides of the pelvis — faces backward ...

(Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling ...

Wang said. It can’t be determined from the fossil whether the bird-like dinosaur could fly or not, he added.