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

Blue is one of the rarest colors among living things, but in Rhode Island, you'll find quite a few beautifully blue-colored ...

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

A previously unknown reptile species with a striking skin crest has been identified by Dutch paleontologist Stephan Spiekman ...

The berry-loving flock of cedar waxwings that have visited the trees in the parking lot of my workplace for the 10 years I ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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