Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.” ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

“Mirasaura lived in trees in one of the first forests that emerged after the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic ...

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither ...

Biologists have long thought feathers first evolved so that creatures like birds could better regulate their body temperature, but UCC research on a fossil reptile suggests a different explanation.

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...

An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal Nature showing that early reptiles from the Triassic period had unique structures growing from its skin that ...

New research, led by the University of Bristol, suggests that feathers arose 100 million years before birds -- changing how we look at dinosaurs, birds, and pterosaurs, the flying reptiles.

June 3 (UPI) --Feathers arrived at least 100 million years before birds, according to a new survey.Using new data in the fields of palaeontology and molecular developmental biology, scientists ...

Low-risk bird flu was also found on a German farm in July 2015. Wild migrating birds can carry the virus and transmit it to others through their feathers or faeces.

Nanostructures preserved in feather fossils more than 40 million years old show evidence that those feathers were once vivid and iridescent in color, paleontologists say.