It's not uncommon for scientists to uncover new fossils from the ages of dinosaurs, but every now and then, a discovery reveals much rarer information. Scientists unearthed the fossil of the small and ...

Microraptor was an exquisitely feathered dinosaur. The small, sickle-clawed predator, which lived about 120 million years ago, was covered in well-developed plumage, including long feathers on its ...

During the Cretaceous, a period of time spanning 145 to 66 million years ago, a little feathered dinosaur swooped down to the ground to gobble up an unsuspecting lizard, swallowing it whole. Now, a ...

In 1993, a small group of scientists and a lawyer visited a remote island owned by an eccentric entrepreneur. There they found a theme park filled with resurrected dinosaurs. It was undoubtedly, the ...

Paleontologists in the UK have proved that a small feathered flying dinosaur, about the same size as a housecat, ate mammals. A fossil of the dinosaur, known as Microraptor, was found with the foot of ...

EDMONTON, Alberta, April 22 (UPI) -- A small flying dinosaur dubbed Microraptor was a capable aerial hunter, swooping and snatching fish from the water like modern birds, Canadian scientists say. New ...

Ever since the announcement of an exquisitely-preserved specimen of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor gui in 2003, paleontologists have been debating how it might have flown and what relevance it ...

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The bird wasn’t just buried alongside Microraptor, for its bones are enclosed by the larger animal’s ribs. It must have been eaten, and O’Connor thinks that Microraptor probably killed the bird, ...