A 130-million-year-old fossil dinosaur covered with feathers is on display 25 April 2001, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding ...

Discovered in the 19th century, scientists once believed that the first-ever dinosaur feather used to belong to the Archaeopteryx, a transitional dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago and ...

The origin of feathers remains a mystery. By James Ashworth. First published . 19 February 2025. Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, ... As well as hunting for more ...

Dinosaurs had many more types of feathers than we see in birds today. Some dinosaurs had four wings. Some species dispensed with wings altogether and glided using large flaps of skin ).

These days, feathers are typically found only on birds and runway models. But recent studies have determined that back in their day, some dinosaurs were also covered with downy quills like today's ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...

Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers Nature, 464 (7293), 1338-1341 DOI: 10.1038/nature08965 You Might Also Like Tracking the Emergence of Birds ...

The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles -- precursors of ...

It had long been believed that the development of feathers may have allowed some species of dinosaur to withstand certain environmental conditions. Dinosaur fossils with feathers, however, are ...

Birds, many meat-eating dinosaurs and some plant-eating dinosaurs are known to have had feathers, though these looked different from those seen on the pterosaurs. Fossilized filamentous structures.