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 ...

For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...

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That critter that flew in and landed on your bird feeder or a nearby tree branch is a dinosaur. Yes, really. “Every bird is a dinosaur,” said Colin Sumrall, associate professor of paleobiology in the ...

It was half-bird, half-reptile and it soared above the still lagoons of Bavaria 147 million years ago. Researchers have confirmed that Archaeopteryx had a brain and body geared for flight, earning it ...

Birds can hold their wings high because of the strange way they crouch, and now scientists say the origins of this folded posture may provide insight into the evolution of their flight. Birds stand ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of flying dinosaur unlike any seen before, a spectacular four-winged predator that lived in trees and probably used its elaborate plumage to glide from branch ...

As anybody who has seen “Jurassic Park” knows, the T-rex is a pretty fearsome dinosaur, but it was the blitzing, fleet-footed velociraptor that inspired the true fear in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 summer ...

Roger Williams Park Zoo was full of kids earlier this month, and seemingly every young arm in the zoo shot skyward when bird trainer Sean Hoelle asked for a volunteer. Hoelle was demonstrating how ...