Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncovered over 70 newly discovered species, including mammals, dinosaurs, insects, fish, and more—some discovered ...

Scientists with the Field Museum of Chicago have discovered that a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in its collection displays an array of features previously unknown when it comes to the earliest ...

(Correction appended: Oct. 26, 2012) In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden ...

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers. Stefen Chow In a pine forest in rural northeastern China, a ...

For decades, scientists have traced the connection between small theropod dinosaurs and modern birds. Fossils such as ...

How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? Join Joe and a few brave chickens as they recreate a brilliant experiment that ...

An analysis shows that feathered-covered dinosaurs came in different colorsClarke et al It’s probably hard to believe, but there was a time, not that long ago, when scientists thought dinosaurs were ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and discovered they were housing species unknown to science. Between recent ...