Feet of an Andean condor.
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The feet of a bird tell us a lot about its life. Newly described, the fossil feet of the ancestors of modern birds reveal how superbly adapted they were to their world.
A feathered velociraptor in the new Jurassic World Dominion film.
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New discoveries keep changing our understanding of what dinosaurs looked like. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The T-Rex is a popular Jurassic World character.
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The biggest crime of the film was exaggerating the size of dinosaurs.
Microraptor: fossils show it had feathers on each limb.
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A transcript of episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including an interview on Israel’s foreign policy options following its recent election.
Kulindadromeus: more evidence is emerging of feathered dinosaurs.
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Plus, what Israel’s latest election could mean for its foreign policy. Listen to episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Reconstruction.
Yuan Zhang
Did feathers evolve in the common ancestor of pterosaurs and dinosaurs? Not everyone is convinced
Hybrid parrots in Costa Rica.
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Today’s birds evolved from feathered dinosaurs.
Amber holds the secret to the tiny world of the age of dinosaurs.
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The skull of Oculudentavis, found encased in amber, provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be smallest of either ever found.
Fire can kill animals and destroy their habitats, leading to extinction.
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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked global firestorms. On land, only creatures that could evade fire survived
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A new type of Archaeopteryx fossil helps build the case for this creature being called ‘the first bird’.
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Reconstructing the colours of the feathered Sinosauropteryx gives hints about its habitat and lifestyle.
Archaeopteryx.
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New research shows how dinosaurs suppressed their teeth and grew beaks, and then back-shifted this process from adult to embryo stage.
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For the first time, feathers, bone and skin of the earliest birds have been found, trapped in amber.
Mammals like otters use their whiskers to orientate themselves – just like their pre-mammalian ancestors did.
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A tiny pit on mammal-like animals’ snouts has revealed a great deal about how mammalian hair originated.
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Think you know all about the dinosaurs? You might be surprised.
Taking flight? Deinonychus
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Just count your lucky stars that they’re not patrolling your garden now – although their descendants might be…
Zhao Chuang
A new fossil has reminded us that the real velociraptors were a world away from the huge scaly lizards seen in Juarssic World.
How we think things may have looked: In early Cretaceous China, a pair of Beipiaosaurus make way for a pack of Yutyrannus trudging over a recent snowfall. Large pterosaurs (Feilongus ) and tiny birds (Eoenantiornis ) take flight.
Brian Choo
The latest Jurassic World movie has been criticised for its less than accurate portrayal of some of the dinosaurs. But how we imagine they looked and behaved has changed many times over the years.
Artist’s impression of the new dinosaur Yi qi .
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The discovery of a new winged dinosaur from more than 160 million years ago shows how they experimented with different forms of flight.