During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

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

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

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

The oldest ever discovered tumor on a human species dates from 1.7 million years ago. In the Swartkrans Cave archaeologists have found a toe bone in which they have discovered a quite aggressive type ...

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

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

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

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 ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical ...

Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...