An international team of researchers, including palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), has discovered a new ...

Professor Maria McNamara, leader of the UCC team and co-author of the study, told The Irish Times that the fossils were ...

By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the ...

A small reptile from the Middle Triassic known as Mirasaura grauvogeli developed a crest structure shaped like feathers but ...

Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

A new fossil is allowing scientists to get their claws into the tricky topic of Triassic evolution.. While dinosaurs tend to grab the spotlight, there were a variety of smaller animals that lived ...