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X-rays Reveal Pigmentation of First Birds
By Mark Brown, Wired UK Confuciusornis sanctus, a prehistoric beaked bird which co-existed with dinosaurs some 120 million years ago, had a dark body, neck and tail, and impressive patterns along its...
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High-Speed Videos Show How Hummingbirds Hum
A Yale University zoologist has used a laser vibrometer and high speed videos from a wind tunnel to work out how the hummingbird makes its famous hum, and found that the males of each species have...
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Giant Feathered Tyrannosaur Found in China
It's not your dad's tyrannosaur: Yutyrannus huali, a newly discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, was covered from head to tail in downy feathers.
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Spectacularly Preserved Fossil Suggests Most Dinosaurs Were Feathered
The discovery of a fantastically preserved, bushy-tailed fossil theropod has cloaked the dinosaur world in feathers. Other feathered dinosaurs have been found before, but none so close to the trunk of...
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Dinosaurs Sprouted Wings Earlier Than Thought
Dinosaurs still walk—and fly—among us: We call them birds. Most paleontologists think birds descended from a group of winged dinosaurs, and thus dinos never went completely extinct. But where did the...
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Dinosaurs May Have Shaken Their Tail Feathers to Woo Mates
A new study suggests that oviraptors -- feathered but flightless dinosaurs -- may have shaken their tail feathers during courtship displays.
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