The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US scientists.

This small dinosaur had a marvelous sense of touch, detailed fossils reveal The creature from Jurassic-period Europe had sensitive scales on its tail, which may have helped it hunt in the water at ...

What they almost never even hope to find is a dinosaur that still has some of its most delicate bits and pieces, but that’s exactly what paleontologists uncovered in Alberta, Canada, over half a ...

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Scientists have re-created the beginnings of the process that allowed scales of dinosaur-era birds to evolve into feathers. The early ancestors of modern birds had scales.

Data from NASA's WISE mission likely rules out the leading suspect, a member of a family of asteroids called Baptistina, so the search for the origins of the dinosaur-killing asteroid goes on.

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 ...

Fossilized toe pads suggest a hawklike hunting style in Microraptor, a dinosaur that some scientists think could hunt while flying.

At the press conference yesterday afternoon announcing plans for Ark Encounter, the religious amusement park that will feature a "full-scale Noah's Ark," ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body.