Oct 23, 2024 by News Staff

Theropod dinosaur trackways can be used as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior, according to new research. The animal responsible for Dromaeosauriformipes...

Jul 6, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Feathers are a primitive trait among pennaraptoran dinosaurs, which today are represented by living birds, the only clade of dinosaurs to survive the end-Cretaceous...

Dec 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of a small mammal foot preserved inside the body cavity of the holotype specimen of Microraptor zhaoianus,...

Jul 12, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in China have uncovered a nearly complete, fully articulated skeleton of Microraptor zhaoianus, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that...

Jun 22, 2018 by News Staff

Reconstructions of dinosaurs at theme parks and museums often show their tongues waving — a feature that is completely incorrect. According to new...

May 29, 2018 by News Staff

An international research team led by scientists at University College Cork, Linyi University, and China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology...

May 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new paleontological study published in the journal Evolution reveals that a small flying dinosaur known as Microraptor was able to swoop down and pick...

Mar 12, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers has discovered that plumage of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, was iridescent with a...