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

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

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

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.” ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

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

An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new ...

The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli –“Grauvogel's wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...

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

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