01
02 2010
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: January 27, 2010
What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes.
That is what a team of C...
01
02 2010
Two findings this week boost the link between birds and dinosaurs. They include the discovery of a bird-like dinosaur and a fossil analysis that suggests some dinosaurs sported colored feathers.
On the top, sh...
28
01 2010
"Dino fuzz" pigment discovery in feathers may strengthen dinosaur-bird link.
Sinosauropteryx is the first fossil dinosaur to have its color scientifically established.
Illustration courtesy James Robins
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28
01 2010
Pigment-storage sacs found in fossils give hints about hue.
Matt Kaplan
Sinosauropteryx may have had orange feathers and a stripey tail.Jim Robbins
Pristine fossils of dinosaur feathers from China have...
26
01 2010
By Dennis Normile
ScienceNOW Daily News
25 January 2010
How did birds learn to fly? The first flight tests of a foam model of a four-winged, feathered dinosaur suggest that early birds may have started...
15
01 2010
By Lin Shujuan (China Daily)
Two press conferences and dozens of interviews by experts over the past two weeks have failed to quiet the unprecedented public debate on the ownership of an ancient tomb discovere...
28
12 2009
Nature invited Dr. Xing Xu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, ChineseAcademy of Sciences, as one of its regular reviewers to name their pick of this year’s book publications. Dr. Xin...
23
12 2009
A birdlike dinosaur related to Velociraptor took down prey with its fanglike teeth.
By Jennifer Viegas
Sinornithosaurus, a carnivorous Chinese dinosaur that likely feasted on other dinosaurs, was venomous,...
22
12 2009
Proc. R. Soc. B doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0883 (2009)
The anomodonts were mammal-like reptiles that were widespread from 270 million years ago until at least 200 million years ago. A new specimen of an animal call...
22
12 2009
Fossils show depression in upper jaw that held venom-producing glands
By Sid Perkins
Well-preserved fossils of a feathered dinosaur that lived about 124 million years ago — along with certain aspects of i...
