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The "proto-feathers" may have been used to keep the smaller dinosaurs warm in polar habitats Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

GENEVA — From dinosaur fuzz to eagle wings, evolution spent over 100 million years perfecting the feather. Now, Swiss scientists have found a way to reverse this process in the lab, causing chicken ...

What happens when you find a feathered dinosaur that really isn't meant to have feathers? That's the question set by a spectacular new fossil that adds a confusing dimension to the origin of feathers.

A treasure trove of fossils that includes dinosaur bones, bird feathers and the first presence of feathered dinosaurs beyond the southern polar circle has been discovered in Australia. A team of ...

Dinosaurs which roamed the South Pole 100 million years ago were formidable, ferocious — and fluffy. According to new evidence published in the journal Gondwana Research, some dinos in extremely cold ...

Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University What are the origins of wings and tails in birds? This is one of the key questions in the evolution of animals. It has long ...

Mysterious tufts of fluff surrounding a dinosaur fossil from China are simple feathers. It's another piece of evidence supporting the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Palaeontologists at the ...

The theory that dinosaurs gave rise to birds has been dealt a blow by palaeontologists who have examined critical evidence from a Chinese fossil. The discoverers of the turkey-sized dinosaur ...