Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

The only dinosaur species to survive were birds. Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or ...

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...