Fossil evidence reveals a surprising diversity in dinosaur parenting. Some species, like Maiasaura, exhibited strong maternal care, feeding and protec ...
On this #WorldAnatomyDay, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are working to find answers to evolutionary mysteries. › Click to Tweet Why are ...
A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved far earlier than scientists thought. Fossils from bird-like dinosaurs in ...
This is an illustration of an oviraptorid dinosaur called Citipati. The scene depicts Citipati being startled while resting on a sand dune. The creature raises its arms in a threat display, which ...
From picking out Stegosaurus flashcards when he was under a year old to dressing as one for Halloween to celebrating birthdays at the American Museum of Natural History, James Napoli has always been ...
This is an illustration of an oviraptorid dinosaur called Citipati. The scene depicts Citipati being startled while resting on a sand dune. The creature raises its arms in a threat display, which ...
New scans of two small predatory dinosaurs reveal a pea-sized wrist bone once thought unique to birds. The research suggests that the engines of flight were revving inside dinosaur arms long before ...
A team of paleontologists from Yale University and Stony Brook University made this discovery after examining fossils from two species of bird-like dinosaurs found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. For ...
The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight. A new study suggests that the bone appeared ...
Feathers are what distinguishes birds from other existing lifeforms; but they’re also what connects them to the creatures of yore. Over the last two decades, thousands of fossils unearthed in China's ...
Who would have thought an ostrich had so much in common with a dinosaur? But look at a side-by-side image of a Struthiomimus—often dubbed the “ostrich mimic”—and the similarities are striking. The ...
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