This theory is based on the discovery of a fossilized psittacosaurus, which had scales similar to those of modern reptiles across most of its body, but feather-specific skin on its tail only, ...
Over the last 30 years, the fossil record has surprised scientists in regard to feather evolution. Future discoveries of ...
Strong but light, beautiful and precisely structured, feathers are the most complex skin appendage that ever evolved in ...
The question of whether some dinosaurs were covered with either scales or feathers has a new answer: both.
Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like ...
A fossilized dinosaur skin specimen under natural light (upper half) and ultraviolet light (lower half) showing the ...
A study by University College Cork reveals that the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus also had reptilian-like scaly skin, ...
May 21 (Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like ...