During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Some fossils are truly breathtaking. While paleontologists are used to finding scraps of bones, broken teeth and hazy ...

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

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

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

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

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

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical dragon.