Microraptor, a small dinosaur that lived in northeast China about 120 million years ago, had feathers on its wings, hind legs and tail. But in all likelihood, it didn’t fly like a bird. Instead, it ...

Microraptor was an exquisitely feathered dinosaur. The small, sickle-clawed predator, which lived about 120 million years ago, was covered in well-developed plumage, including long feathers on its ...

In 1993, a small group of scientists and a lawyer visited a remote island owned by an eccentric entrepreneur. There they found a theme park filled with resurrected dinosaurs. It was undoubtedly, the ...

During the Cretaceous, a period of time spanning 145 to 66 million years ago, a little feathered dinosaur swooped down to the ground to gobble up an unsuspecting lizard, swallowing it whole. Now, a ...

Ever since the announcement of an exquisitely-preserved specimen of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor gui in 2003, paleontologists have been debating how it might have flown and what relevance it ...

Paleontologists in the UK have proved that a small feathered flying dinosaur, about the same size as a housecat, ate mammals. A fossil of the dinosaur, known as Microraptor, was found with the foot of ...

The bird wasn’t just buried alongside Microraptor, for its bones are enclosed by the larger animal’s ribs. It must have been eaten, and O’Connor thinks that Microraptor probably killed the bird, ...

In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year ...

Paleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach. It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating ...

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