A feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak is helping shed new light on how reptile scales became bird feathers, according to scientists. Psittacosaurus – a plant-eating creature about the size of a ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have been scouring western North America’s Hell Creek Formation for new dinosaurs. The rocks preserve some of the last non-avian dinosaurs before Earth’s fifth ...

(Reuters) - A new fossil of the Cretaceous Period dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized herbivore with a parrot-like beak, that was donated to a Chinese university came with a surprise - one revealed ...

The discovery of a "parrot lizard" fossil could explain how dinosaurs developed feathers. Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin, ...

A toothless, two-fingered dinosaur was able to thrive more than 68 million years ago due to the parrot-like species' remarkable ability to adapt, scientists have discovered. A toothless, two-fingered ...

We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues are shedding light on a transitional phase in how feathers came to be. Feathers are one of nature’s ...