When archeologists hunt for fossils what they’re typically after are bones, footprints, and other fossilized traces of ancient creators having once roamed the ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...

Skin impressions of one of the largest animals to walk the Earth were uncovered in Spain. The Autonomous University of Barcelona says the prints were left by a titanosaur some 66 million years ago.

A 130-million-year-old fossil dinosaur covered with feathers is on display 25 April 2001, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The question of whether some dinosaurs were covered with either scales or feathers has a new answer: both. Researchers examined the skin of the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus from the early ...

This dinosaur might have used its feet to snag prey in midair like modern hawks. How well Microraptor flew is debated, but its toe pads are giving clues to how it behaved ...

A feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak is helping shed new light on how reptile scales became bird feathers, according to scientists. Palaeontologists have now discovered the creature, often ...