Although the vast majority of feather discoveries have been in coelurosaurian theropods, feather-like integument has also been discovered in at least three ornithischians, suggesting that feathers may ...

At last there was evidence of truly primitive feathers—found on a ground-running theropod. In short, the origin of feathers may have had nothing to do with the origin of flight. Soon ...

But no theropod fossils preserved wings, let alone feathers. Without more evidence, Ostrom and other paleontologists argued fiercely about the origin of birds for decades. In 1996, Pei-ji Chen ...

What experts lacked, but hoped for, was a non-bird theropod with preserved feathers to cinch the connection. Sinosauropteryx ...

Scientists discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber, revealing soft tissue, feathers, and clues leading to an incredible theory.

The artist’s impression shows a dromaeosaur, a type of feathered theropod, in the snow. This dinosaur group is popularly known as a raptor. A well-known dromaeosaur is Velociraptor, portrayed in ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...

During the course of their evolutionary history, the body size of some theropod groups gradually decreased. This trend, together with many other changes to the skeleton, ultimately led to the ...

E Penalver et al The fossils hail from Myanmar "The fossil record tells us that feathers like the one we have studied were already present on a wide range of theropod dinosaurs, a group which ...

In depth analysis shows that as well as fur - which has been suggested before - the flying reptiles had feathers like some dinosaurs, including the theropods. "If I just saw these fluffy bits on ...