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 ...

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

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

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

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

The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...

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 ...