A remarkable fossil discovery in China is giving scientists a fresh look at how some of the earliest birds may have used feathers to stand out from the crowd. The newly identified species lived more ...

Plumadraco lived 121 million years ago in northeast China Pigeon-sized bird had tail feathers twice its body length Researchers think it moved its tail feathers up and down May 27 (Reuters) - New ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...

(A) The holotype specimen of Plumadraco, (B) a closer view of the body and, (C) a line drawing of the same portion of the body shown in B. Image courtesy Clark et al./PLoS One Scientists have ...

Ancient bird fossil reveals an unexpected feather structure The fossil belonged to a larger collection of ancient bird fossils housed in the Chinese museum. The fossil had not undergone any ...

More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ostriches, and kiwi birds. In a study in the journal Evolution, researchers ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows what a male and female Plumadraco, a bird that lived about 121 million years during the Cretaceous Period in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (A) The holotype specimen of Plumadraco, (B) a closer view of the body and, (C) a line drawing ...

May 27 (Reuters) - New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds of paradise prancing about and showing off their ...