Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Dinosaurs Once Had Furs and Feather Covering Their Body, Study Finds Evidence of Bird-Like Features We have learned about ...

And some Velociraptor fossils have tiny bumps on their arm bones where feathers were attached, just like in modern birds. At first, paleontologists thought only theropod dinosaurs had feathers.

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding out exactly when feathers evolved, and which animals had them, could offer important new insights into the distant past.

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

The pictures showed a fossil of a dinosaur with a fringe of what looked like rudimentary feathers. Ostrom was so astonished he had to sit down. The 125-million-year-old fossil, now known as ...

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

Feathers, however, predate birds – having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding out exactly when feathers evolved, and which animals had them, could offer important new insights into the ...