In short, the evolution of feathers would have happened along with the evolution of flight. This feathers-led-to-flight notion began to unravel in the 1970s, when Yale University paleontologist ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...

Feather and colour evolution Studies of colour in fossil birds and dinosaurs based on melanosomes in their feathers, and evolution of feathers and homologies of dermal structures across all archosaurs ...

A recent study published in National Science Review reports the discovery of fossilized chewing lice eggs in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, offering the earliest direct evidence of parasitic lice ...

And it was those feathers that Sir Fred couldn't accept ... Archaeopteryx would quickly become a cause célèbre for the anti-evolution movement. And don't forget, the museum was the scene ...

A newly discovered dinosaur with feathers and a parrot-like beak will help solve one of evolution’s great mysteries. Psittacosaurus – a plant-eating creature about the size of a large dog ...