New evidence was discovered that suggests feathers started appearing on animals around 70 million years earlier than previously suspected. Two anurognathid pterosaurs were studied by a group of ...

We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are one of nature’s ...

The genealogy of feathered dinosaurs promises to forever shakeup how archaeologists approach dinosaurs, birds and flying reptiles or pterosaurs. A study led by the University of Bristol, UK, has found ...