Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

On03, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The 130-million-year-old fossil ...

For more than 150 years, researchers have been studying the fossils of bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx and attempting to answer this question: Did it fly? Although it may sound simple, the fossils of ...

Experts shined UV light on the Chicago Archaeopteryx to expose otherwise invisible soft tissues. After more than two decades spent in a private collection, one of the most detailed and complete fossil ...

That critter that flew in and landed on your bird feeder or a nearby tree branch is a dinosaur. Yes, really. “Every bird is a dinosaur,” said Colin Sumrall, associate professor of paleobiology in the ...

A dinosaur bird that lived 147 million years ago had a brain like a modern eagle or parrot and was equipped to fly, an international team of scientists says. Archaeopteryx is the oldest bird known. It ...

Paleontologists working in China have found a new dinosaur with one of the most complex, well-preserved set of wings ever seen on a specimen of its size. In a study published Thursday in the journal ...

Editor’s Note: Science has transformed our understanding of dinosaurs in the past two decades. Get caught up with what’s new in this five-part CNN series. One close glimpse of a modern bird, ...

Ferocious tyrannosaurs and towering sauropods are long gone, but dinosaurs continue to frolic in our midst. We’re talking about birds, of course, yet it’s not entirely obvious why we should consider ...

Scientists know that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and Archaeopteryx is part of that evolutionary path. Archaeopteryx preceded the oldest bird by 75 million years. And as we know from looking at ...