Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs.

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid ... birds lived while so many of their relatives died has been a mystery that paleontologists have been trying to solve for decades.

Scientists say a fossil of skin from a dinosaur could help to solve the mystery of how the creatures developed feathers. A team has been studying a fossil from a Psittacosaurus - which is often ...

The presence of two types of skin on the fossil implies that dinosaurs may have retained reptile skin as protection while experimenting with feathers in certain areas in the early days of feather ...

We now know that many dinosaurs and their flying cousins, the pterosaurs, had feathers. Feathers came in more shapes in the past – for example, ribbon-like feathers with expanded tips were found in ...

The new research, however, reveals that the protein composition of modern-day feathers was also present in the feathers of dinosaurs and ... We're developing new tools to understand what happens ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... have long puzzled over how winged dinosaurs ruled the skies – until ...

If the same book had been written 25 years ago, for example, dinosaurs that we now know had feathers would have been illustrated as wholly scaly, and paleontologists would have said that we’ll ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... an asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs, but researchers have revealed ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds – having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs ... details ...