The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US ... How dinosaur scales became bird feathers. 22 November 2017. Share Save. Rory Galloway ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Turtles have roamed the Earth since the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago. A new study about their evolution, published in iScience, shows how the scales on turtles’ heads can teach us more ...

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 ...