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A previously unknown reptile species with a striking skin crest has been identified by Dutch paleontologist Stephan Spiekman ...
An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new ...
Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.
Many species of songbirds have evolved to have strikingly colorful plumage, aiding them in catching the eye of mates, ...
It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...
By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...
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Irish Examiner on MSNUCC scientists part of international team that discovered 250-million-year-old 'wonder reptile'
Irish palaeontologists have helped discover an ancient "wonder reptile" which completely disrupts the scientific view of how ...
A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli –“Grauvogel's wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...
Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...
Why are some songbirds so brightly colored? A new study finds that a hidden layer of black and white feathers help their colors pop.
A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching ...
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