Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...
Learn about three momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record Paul M. Barrett Scientists who study dinosaurs make new discoveries in the field, extracting previously unknown specimens from ...
For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...
Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.
Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...
The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...
Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the ... with some believing that eruptions occurred in waves that buried the dinosaurs under ash or mud. This explanation compared the Yixian fossils ...
A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.
The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year ...
Roughly 233 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...