Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

“Mirasaura lived in trees in one of the first forests that emerged after the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic ...

Paleontologists identified a new ancient reptile appendage. And, how fast did dinosaurs run? A longstanding equation for dino ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

Meet Mirasaura grauvogeli, a small reptile from the Middle Triassic, whose frill of feather-shaped structures rethinks the ...

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither ...