Long before birds took to the skies, dinosaurs were already sporting feathers. But exactly how they evolved into the ...

A phylogenetic comparative analysis demonstrates a long-term evolutionary trend toward increased relative forelimb length in Mesozoic birds independent of allometric scaling.

A remarkable fossil found in China raises the possibility that some of the earliest bird species never took wing or abandoned flight almost immediately after they had evolved the ability. Min Wang at ...

If feathers did not evolve first for flight, what other advantage could they have provided the creatures that had them? Some paleontologists have argued that feathers could have started out as ...

A newly analysed 99-million-year-old feather preserved in Burmese amber is offering fresh insight into how the structures ...

A newly described feathered dinosaur found in northeastern China adds evidence supporting the theory that flight-related features evolved differently in various bird-like dinosaur groups. The findings ...

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Photographing wild birds in flight, once known as "tobimono" (flying subjects), was previously considered a god-like skill.

Pterosaurs rapidly evolved flight, in contrast to modern birds, a new study suggests. The study of fossils suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired ...