This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Fossils of the remarkable dromaeosaurid Microraptor gui and relatives clearly show well-developed flight feathers on the hind limbs as well as ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — A joint team from the University of Kansas and Northeastern University in China says that it has settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began. In the Jan. 25 issue of ...

A study into the aerodynamic performance of feathered dinosaurs, by scientists from the University of Southampton, has provided new insight into the evolution of bird flight. In recent years, new ...

NARRATOR: One day, long ago, life in a forest came to a sudden halt, snuffed out and buried by volcanic ash. One hundred thirty million years later, fossils are all that remain, and some are like ...

Splayed out like a dissected animal in a high school biology class, this fossil leaves little doubt as to what kind of creature it once was. Frogs are extremely ancient, dating back some 250 million ...

Paleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach. It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating ...

[caption id="attachment_9356" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Model of Microraptor gui, a feathered dinosaur. Image: David Krentz"] [/caption] RALEIGH, N.C ...

Dinosaur fossils are found throughout the world, but an "exceptionally rare" discovery sheds light on what type of animals a dinosaur fed on – mammals. In the early 2000s, the fossil of a Microraptor ...

A new species of lizard has been discovered inside the stomach of a 120 million-year-old dinosaur. Researchers in China found the near-complete specimen inside a Microraptor zhaoianus—a small ...

Researchers in the United States and China say that they have settled the long-standing question of how bird flight began. A joint team from the University of Kansas and Northeastern University in ...

A study into the aerodynamic performance of feathered dinosaurs has provided new insight into the evolution of bird flight. In recent years, new fossil discoveries have changed our view of the early ...