Science news articles about 'feathered dinosaurs'

  • New bizarre feathered dinosaur discovered in China

    ... (online 22 October). The discovery of a bizarre feathered dinosaur, named Epidexipteryx hui, from the Middle to Late Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China that is probably ...
  • New Feathered Dinosaur Adds to Bird Evolution Theory

    A fossil of a primitive feathered dinosaur uncovered in China is helping scientists create a better model of how dinosaurs evolved into modern birds.
  • Chilly times for Chinese dinosaurs: Abundance of feathered dinosaurs during temperate climate with harsh winters

    Dinosaurs did not always enjoy mild climates. New findings show that during part ... had a temperate climate with harsh winters. They explain the abundance of feathered dinosaurs in fossil deposits of that period ...
  • Giant feathered dinosaur found in China was too big to fly

    ... dinosaur Yutyrannus huali – 'beautiful feathered tyrant' – either used its feathers to keep warm or attract a mateThe discovery of the largest known feathered dinosaur was announced by scientists in China on Wednesday ...
  • Canadian researchers discover fossils of first feathered dinosaurs from North America

    ... . "This is a really exciting discovery as it represents the first feathered dinosaur specimens found in the Western Hemisphere," says Zelenitsky ... ," says Therrien. "But the discovery of these ornithomimids in sandstone shows that feathered dinosaurs can also be preserved in rocks deposited by ancient ...
  • Feathered dinosaur find first for Americas

    DRUMHELLER, Alberta, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Canadian paleontologists say they've discovered the first fossils of a feathered dinosaur ever found in the Americas, unearthed in Alberta.
  • For some feathered dinosaurs, bigger not necessarily better

    ... body mass for 47 extinct species of feathered dinosaur, representing three major groups ... topped out at over 13,000 pounds. "The largest feathered dinosaurs were more than 100 times more massive than your ...
  • Feathered dinosaurs showed wide diversity

    ... Megan GannonLiveScienceFlightless feathered dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks and long, skinny claws that scampered around ... of at least five species of vegetarian birdlike dinosaurs known as caenagnathids have been found from West Texas to Canada ...
  • Fossil feathers preserve evidence of color, say Yale scientists

    ... birds and their ancestors, the dinosaurs. Closer study of a number of fossilized bird feathers by Yale PhD ... to reliably predict, for example, the original colors of feathered dinosaurs," said Prum, who is the William Robertson Coe ...
  • Fossil hunters arrive in Darwin country

    ... that somebody was going to say something very exciting about feathered dinosaurs – and, it must be said, no little interest ... out of the study of fossils of creatures with backbones – from the most impressive of dinosaurs to the tiniest of fish – were meeting, greeting and talking ...
  • Feathered dinosaur finds have Chinese scientists all aflutter

    ... new fossils has confirmed that birds evolved from dinosaurs, Chinese scientists claimed tonight. Because ... to the theory that birds descended from predatory dinosaurs. The fossils all have feathers or feather-like structures. The clearest ...
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    ... turn ... Chemicals linked to testicular cancer ... Feathered dinosaur fossil found in China ... Vitamin D lack linked to blood pressure ... Health/Science ...
  • Inside the first bird, surprising signs of a dinosaur

    ... . Instead, the animal has been recast as more of a feathered dinosaur -- bird on the outside, dinosaur on the inside. That's because new ... , the researchers also examined different-size species of dinosaurs that were close relatives of Archaeopteryx, including Deinonychosaurs ...
  • Feathered dinosaur prowled forests like a predatory turkey

    ... dinosaur's fangs may have sent victims into shock, hampering their chances of escapingThe remains of a venomous, feathered ... skull and partial skeleton of the bird-like dinosaur, Sinornithosaurus, that lived in the region 128 million ...
  • Gators breathe like birds

    ... about the archosaur that was the common ancestor of crocodilians and of pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds, Farmer says. It probably was "a small, relatively ... that also includes T. rex and feathered dinosaurs. Unidirectional air flow in birds long has been attributed ...

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