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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified a prehistoric monkey lizard species, revealing unique crest features and early reptile evolution.

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest ...

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 ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a ...

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

A delicate, innocuous little fossil reptile known as Mirasaura grauvogeli – “Grauvogel’s wonder reptile” – is forcing a ...