The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

But Sinosauropteryx was not a bird. The 124-million-year-old dinosaur belonged to a group of small carnivores called compsognathids, and its feathers were more of a wispy fuzz. When ...

“But then, when those things all came together, evolution all of sudden had produced a small dinosaur with feathers and wings that could fly.” “The analogy I like to use is with the Wright ...

“These fossils proved once and for all that today’s birds evolved from dinosaurs,” he said. “Today, we know that many had feathers and looked and acted much more like birds.” Before ...