Small omnivorous and insectivorous dinosaurs may have flapped small, feathered primitive wings to scare prey out of hiding places, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The authors ...

But Sinosauropteryx was not a bird. The 124-million-year-old dinosaur belonged to a group of small carnivores called compsognathids, and its feathers were more of a wispy fuzz.

In northeastern China, researchers have found the fossil of a small dinosaur preserved in 163-million-year-old sandstone. At ...

However, the fossil really stands out because, in a rare stroke of luck for paleontologists, its bony vocal organs were ...

“It really demonstrates the generalist diet in this small feathered dinosaur,” said Hans Larsson, a paleontologist at McGill University and the study’s lead author, in an email to Gizmodo.

M. gui also has "killer claws," but its hind limbs contrast sharply with those of most other small raptors, because -- like the forelimbs -- they are thickly carpeted with functional feathers.

The scientists still think that feathers first emerged in a smaller dinosaur, and that larger feathered dinos only came along later. "However, that doesn't mean that small feathered dinosaurs ...

Zhaoianus was a small, feathered carnivore which lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 125 million years ago and the discovery supports the idea that they were generalist carnivores, snacking ...

About 125 million years before the Wright brothers embraced a similar design, a small feathered dinosaur took to the air with a biplane wing arrangement enabling it to glide from treetops, experts ...