The Smithsonian Channel has just posted a glimpse of the cornucopia of prehistoric bird fossils embedded in the lush Liaoning Province of China. And the sight is jaw-dropping. Liaoning, which is a day ...
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
A fossil from China that's 150 million years old may be the world's earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than previously ...
A new bird-like dinosaur species has been discovered with unusually large and “robust” clawed hands, shedding more light on early adaptations that led to the evolution of birds. The dinosaur, named ...
Scientists have known for some time that birds like chickens and ostriches are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Now, a newly discovered fossil of a bird-like dinosaur could ...
It has taken more than 20 years to extract, assemble and interpret a mysterious find from a famed marble quarry about 50 miles north of Milan, Italy. Now, with the investigation finally complete, ...
Sept 6 (Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling ...
As anybody who has seen “Jurassic Park” knows, the T-rex is a pretty fearsome dinosaur, but it was the blitzing, fleet-footed velociraptor that inspired the true fear in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 summer ...
AMES, Iowa – Exploring the genome of an animal that’s been extinct for 65 million years has its challenges. But studying that animal’s living relatives might be the next best thing. An Iowa State ...
The dinosaur lived in the deserts of what is now Mongolia some 65 million years ago. Its skeleton is among the most bizarre of all dinosaurs, the study said. The new study investigated how vision and ...
When humans want to move fast—barring speed-walking races—we pick up our feet. But when birds need to get somewhere quickly without flying, they tend to always keep one foot on the ground, leading to ...
On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern Cassowary claw. Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," ...
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