In short, the evolution of feathers would have happened along with the evolution of flight. This feathers-led-to-flight notion began to unravel in the 1970s, when Yale University paleontologist ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...