Instead of crushing its prey, the wasp’s flytrap-like abdomen likely served as a restraining device. The flaps and teeth-like ...

Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than 150 million years ago in the Jurassic Period. The ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T.

The first discovery of a bat-like winged dinosaur was in 2015, but scientists had dismissed the initial finding because it ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Natural phenomena have always been the source of inspiration for engineers. For instance, birds have long served as a source of inspiration for the design of various aircraft. Now, engineers are ...

Now Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today – an evolutionary mystery that ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pteranodon's Flight: The Flying Dinosaur Game Welcome to Pteranodon's Flight! Dip, dive, swoop and soar as you hunt for prey, weave through jagged rocks ...

Scientists in Chile’s Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called “flying dragon,” a Jurassic-era dinosaur previously thought to only have occupied the northern hemisphere.

Some dinosaurs may have used feathers to stay warm, court mates or even fly. For instance, paleontologists think a tiny chicken-size dinosaur named Microraptor had feathers on all four limbs to ...