The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day ...

A newly discovered four-winged dinosaur from China suggests that dinosaur wings evolved twice independently in different ...

A newly described feathered dinosaur found in northeastern China adds evidence supporting the theory that flight-related ...

A new species of dinosaur has been described in northeastern China. This tiny feathered friend is a kind of microraptorine, a ...

For a long time, textbooks made dinosaur flight look like a neat progression: feathers show up in small theropod dinosaurs, ...

If feathers did not evolve first for flight, what other advantage could they have provided the creatures that had them? Some paleontologists have argued that feathers could have started out as ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

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Pterosaurs rapidly evolved flight, in contrast to modern birds, a new study suggests. The study of fossils suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired ...

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