How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? Join Joe and a few brave chickens as they recreate a brilliant experiment that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A Jurassic Period dinosaur Ambopteryx longibrachium, which flew with bat-like membranous wings, is shown in this image ...

Attracting mates with showy displays may have helped dinosaurs develop feathers that let them take flight, according to new research by University of Alberta paleontologists. "The first complex wing ...

An artist's impression of a pair of Hesperornithoides miessleri, which, despite being flightless, had many bird-like features, including feathered forelimbs. Image Credit: Illustration by Gabriel ...

Until China’s feathered dinosaurs were discovered, the only fossil evidence for feather evolution came from archaeopteryx – and that wasn’t very informative as its feathers were essentially modern.

Its name means “strange wing” in Mandarin Chinese, and its wings – if that’s indeed what they are – have palaeontologists puzzled. Yi qi is a single fossil dinosaur specimen discovered in the ...

Editor’s Note: Science has transformed our understanding of dinosaurs in the past two decades. Get caught up with what’s new in this five-part CNN series. One close glimpse of a modern bird, ...

Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. These 'rules' provide clues as to how the dinosaur ...

A rare set of 160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how flight evolved among dinosaurs and birds, offering the first direct behavioral evidence that some ...

Birds can fly— at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don’t require flight. However, there’s a lot that scientists don’t know about how ...