The fossil shows that a feather of the mystery fossil’s size and shape would have fit into the wing’s plumage. The Altmühl specimen of Archaeopteryx (seen at left) includes imprints of the ...

A newly discovered, perfectly preserved fossil of a 150 million-year-old dinosaur found in southern Germany may force scientists to rethink how and when feathers evolved. The nearly complete ...

An international research team including University of Akron scientists has done the seemingly impossible – breaking a microscopic code hidden in a 160 million-year-old feathered dinosaur fossil ...

A fossil feather, thought to be the oldest ever found at around 150 million year old, came from a dinosaur currently unknown to scientists, experts say. The faint imprint of a fossilised feather ...

Valentina Rossi first saw the 30,000-year-old griffon vulture as a master’s student in Rome in 2014. The fossil, which had been found by a local landowner near Rome in 1889, was remarkably well ...

The extinct bird Calxavis grandei lived in what's now Wyoming, and its incredibly well-preserved fossils include imprints of its feathers. "You can look at a fossil slab and see an outline of ...

"These weren't fossil imprints in a rock, but feathers and bones we could actually pick up." Exceptional geologic circumstances led to the preservation of the feathers inside a lava cave on the ...

Microscopic feather features reveal fossil birds' colors and explain why cassowaries shine. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 05 / 200513143402.htm ...

Now, fossilized skin samples from a psittacosaurus that lived around 130 million years ago have shown that this species had some areas of scaly skin and other areas with feathers. This fossil was ...

Paleontologists have found a missing link in the evolution of dinosaur feathers.Along with their signature sharp teeth and gigantic bodies, some feathered dinosaurs also had scaly skin like today ...