The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized ...

Red snakes are perhaps the most visually stunning of these intriguing reptiles, drawing attention with vibrant shades of ...

A fragment of ancient reptile skin discovered in an Oklahoma cave is changing what scientists know about early life on land. Dated to nearly 300 million years ago, this fossilized skin is now ...

Usually, fossilized animal remains result from bits of bone or impressions of a creature long-passed. But sometimes a specific place has just the right conditions to preserve even more. From Richards ...

The world’s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found in a ...

Researchers believe they’ve found the oldest known fossilized skin, hidden away in a limestone cave system in Oklahoma. The skin sample dates to the early Permian Period, between 289 million years ago ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of feathers. The holotype fossil of Mirasaura, which was found in 1939 in ...

Richard O. Prum is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at the Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA. Read the paper: Triassic diapsid shows early ...

Zixiao Yang receives funding from the Irish Research Council and Jurassic Foundation. Maria McNamara receives funding from the European Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland. Strong but ...

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