This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

The fossil was secretly brought to the U.K. by ... it was concluded that this sample was more closely related to the Chinese Anchiornis and given the name Ostromia. "This new research at Diamond ...

Fossil evidence indicates it was covered in ... While capable of short bursts of powered flight, it was not a strong flyer. Anchiornis, from the Late Jurassic (~160 million years ago) of China ...

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

For some species at least, such as the small feathered dinosaur Anchiornis, we have the fossils, and we have the techniques. We just need to extract the data from the dinosaur fossils we have.