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

Is it possible that feathers weren’t the first extravagant skin appendages in reptiles? The recent discovery of Mirasaura grauvogeli’s remarkable dorsal crest has upended long-held assumptions about ...

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

Mirasaura provides the first direct evidence that complex skin appendages appeared early during reptile evolution and are not ...

An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new ...

Experts had long believed feathers came from dinosaurs and birds. But Mirasaura, which predates dinosaurs, shows that complex ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

With it's widely varied landscapes, Arizona is home to so many cool creatures. These are 10 of the most unique animals. Have ...

Meet the king of curiosity, the master of mimicry, and the cleverest in town—Cacatua galerita, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo!

On a Sunday in May 1995, a six-year-old boy was publicly identified as the second-most-important person in Tibetan Buddhism. Three days later, he was disappeared by China's communist authorities.

A convicted mass killer's co-workers, cellmates and former Tinder matches have labelled him "socially awkward" and "annoying" in newly released police documents. Bryan Kohberger was sentenced this ...