Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study, published on Wednesday in the Journal of vertebrate Paleontology, describes a small, feathered dinosaur Microraptor ...

Microraptor gui— is suggested by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University in this week's online issue of Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Microraptor was described by Xing Xu of ...

Paleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach. It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaur fossils are found throughout the world, but an "exceptionally rare" discovery sheds light on what type of animals a ...

It's not uncommon for scientists to uncover new fossils from the ages of dinosaurs, but every now and then, a discovery reveals much rarer information. Scientists unearthed the fossil of the small and ...

Modern birds evolved from dinosaurs, but it’s not clear how well birds’ ancient dino ancestors could fly (SN: 10/28/16). Now, a look at the fossilized feet of one nonavian dinosaur suggests that it ...

Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ...

Size of the dinosaur Microraptor gui compared with a human. Scale bar = 1 meter. Credit: Matt Martyniuk University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a ...

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If you could travel back roughly 250 million years, you would not see the Earth you know today. Instead, you would arrive at ...