For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

Dinosaurs were a lot closer to birds than movies would make you think, but this tiny dinosaur didn't only have feathers, but full wings in an odd spot.

As the world neared the end of the dinosaur age, one creature claimed the heavens, Quetzalcoatlus, the ultimate aerial ...

"This book is based on the scientific publication "Feathered dinosaurs and the origin of flight", The Dinosaur Museum Journal, Volume 1, 2002, and the traveling museum exhibitions of "Feathered ...

Pterosaur is the first group of vertebrates with powered flight. It originated in the Late Triassic and became extinct with ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...