4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (311+ words) and it’s exciting that it could help us answer this huge question in paleontology,” says Jingmai O’Connor...O’Connor has spent years studying fossil birds to try to answer this question....look for feathers or to study feathers in…...

4+ day, 17+ min ago   (529+ words) and it’s exciting that it could help us answer this huge question in paleontology,” said Jingmai O’Connor...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1241+ words) we first excavated the painted slab we had no idea that it had painting on it,” lead author Sue O’Connor...

4+ day, 50+ min ago   (389+ words) In Tyrant Lizard Queen, paleontologist Riley Black paints a portrait of a misunderstood dinosaur....But in Tyrant Lizard Queen, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black asks readers to “consider the...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (257+ words) they also had some smaller, fuzzy, primitive body feathers that we associate with dinosaurs,” said O’Connor...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (657+ words) Supplied: O’Connor et al Researchers don't know which dinosaur made the coprolite, but they thought it...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (747+ words) For more than a century, Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis has yielded spectacular fossils that have helped shape scientific understanding of Africa’s prehistoric past. Best known as the “land of Spinosaurus”, the Cretaceous formation has revealed giant dinosaurs, fossil fishes and crocodyliforms…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1673+ words) Over the last 25 years, a pair of professors have collected thousands of students' drawings trying to accurately depict a T. rex, but few get it right. Whether Barney, cheap plastic toys, or dinosaur chicken nuggets are to blame, here’s what most…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (257+ words) Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago....