Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

New research on a four-winged dinosaur reveals it was secondarily flightless, with a wing structure and molting pattern.

Bird fossils from the Cretaceous (meaning before the asteroid) are limited because it’s hard to fossilise birds. They’re ...

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, with extra connections between the backbone and hips, that all dinosaurs ...

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of the University of New South Wales Press, Ltd."--Title page verso. "The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China ...

Some feathered dinosaurs like Anchiornis huxleyi may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was ...

Quetzalcoatlus is often described as a flying dinosaur, though it belonged to a separate group of ancient reptiles known as pterosaurs With a wingspan comparable to a small aircraft, it remains one of ...