Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs that sported feathers. But judging from the email he has been receiving, some moviegoers did ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

The Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossils discovered in the Yixian Formation stood out for their remarkable state of preservation.

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology team at a site where many three-dimensional dinosaur fossils have been ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

The finds even included a cat-size mammal and a small dinosaur locked in mortal combat, stopped in mid-action when they died. The world's first known non-avian feathered dinosaurs showed up—some ...

Paleontologist Dave Hone rates the realism of the dinosaur attacks in the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies.

An artistic rendering of Dromaeosauriformipes rarus (Julius Csotonyi) There is evidence that the dinosaur flapped its feathered arms to achieve lift, allowing it to travel faster than if it had ...