Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown ...

This illustration drawn by Maurilio Oliveira shows a restored image of the Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

living environment, and global comparisons of pterosaurs, Wang said. This illustration drawn by Maurilio Oliveira shows a restored image of the Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. [Institute of ...

The Chinese-Brazilian research team will continue their collaborative efforts, focusing on in-depth research into the evolution, lifestyle, living environment, and global comparisons of pterosaurs, ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

This theory suggests that feathers first evolved in a common ancestor of the dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs ... identify a true feather from a living bird, we'd look to see what ...

If any bird looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park, it’s the toucan. Birds are living dinosaurs, after all, and this species ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers ... at the melanosomes in the fur of a diverse range of 116 living mammals. From this, the researchers developed a model that ...

This theory suggests that feathers first evolved in a common ancestor of the dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs, meaning both groups ... “To identify a true feather from a living bird, we’d ...