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 ...

Scientists have identified a prehistoric monkey lizard species, revealing unique crest features and early reptile evolution.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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