A forelimb fossil discovered in Mongolia showed ... which go far beyond the skin-deep appearance of feathers. Like birds, Velociraptor had hollow bones, tended nests of eggs, and probably behaved ...

such as the notorious meat eater Velociraptor and even some members of the tyrannosaur group. They, too, were probably adorned with feathers. The abundance of feathered fossils has allowed ...

In short, the origin of feathers may have had nothing to do with the origin of flight. Soon paleontologists were finding hundreds of feathered theropods. With so many fossils to compare ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

Steve did his PhD at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University in New York, where he jumped at the opportunity to work with dinosaur curator, Mark Norell – an expert in the ...