An artist's impression of the new microraptor, Jian changmaensis, attacking an early bird. (Lewis LaRosa/Jão Canola) For ...

"Scientists have found these weird, broken-up clusters of bird bones at this site, and we didn't know what made them." ...

A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal's life. While a well-preserved skeleton can provide hints at what an ancient ...

A new microraptor species has been found in China ...

The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

A 121-million-year-old fossil from China shows that extreme feather displays are not a modern bird invention. Plumadraco bankoorum had two tail feathers nearly twice its body length—likely useless for ...

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur from China may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding a fossil bed filled with ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

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The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...