The newly described Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Middle Triassic had a striking feather-like crest, hinting that complex skin appendages arose far earlier than previously believed. Its bird-like ...

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither scale, nor bone, nor feather. The extinct creature's 247-million-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction and illustration of Mirasaura grauvogeli in its natural forested environment. Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto, ...

A new species of prehistoric reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, was identified by scientists. The findings were recently published in the journal Nature. Mirasaura grauvogeli was a prehistoric animal that ...

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like reptiles today, thus shedding new light on the evolutionary transition ...

The evolution of feathers in ancient animals was restricted to dinosaurs and their modern bird descendants. However, a reptile of the Middle Triassic period evolved something similar to feathers, ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating the body, and were used for courtship, display, deterrence of enemies and, ...

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 ...

Robo-Dinosaur Scares Grasshoppers to Test Why Ancient Reptiles Developed Feathers South Korean scientists developed a robot dinosaur to scare grasshoppers for an experiment to determine why ancient ...

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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Studied dinosaur specimen NJUES-10 under natural (upper half) and UV light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin. Scientists discover ‘zoned development’ in dinosaur ...