Recent research suggests that Velociraptor mongoliensis was a feathered dinosaur. A forelimb fossil discovered in Mongolia showed quill knobs like those found in many modern birds. These telltale ...

A new study measuring the cognitive skills of paleognaths – the small-brained, generally flightless, and more stereotypically dinosaur-like class of birds that includes ostriches, emus ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

These “little skeletons of raptor dinosaurs, sheathed in feathers, wings coming out of their arms” were the “final clue that said yes, absolutely, birds really did evolve from dinosaurs ...

The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe ... more reptilian traits and a long tail similar to that of a velociraptor, researchers today believe the Baminornis’ light ...

But dinosaurs don’t roar like a lion. They’re related to birds. Which means their voice box was probably similar to a bird’s. Raptors had wings. First of all, raptor hands didn’t droop ...

The ability to fly evolved in the branch of dinosaurs that gave rise to birds, as well as in another closely related group – the dromaeosaurs, more popularly known as raptors. The traits that enabled ...

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent. At such a critical moment ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T. rex. Pterodactyls are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as the ...