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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Biologists have long thought feathers first evolved so that creatures such as birds could better regulate their body temperature, but UCC research on a fossil reptile suggests a different explanation.

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