Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also ...

Most famously, feathers allowed early birds and related dinosaurs like Microraptor to take to the air. But paleontologists have also found feathers and related structures on many other dinosaurs ...

But for Jingmai O'Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. "If you looked at an artist's reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered ...

Meanwhile, other feathered fossils' wings seemed flight-ready— including those of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, and ...

that's bad," the team nonetheless tests out how the Microraptor model glides with its legs widely splayed.

Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million years (more than 160 million years in some parts of the world). They evolved diverse shapes and sizes, from the fearsome ...

But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered ...