(BBC NEWS) – Meet Sinosauropteryx, a very spiky little dinosaur. A team of scientists from China and the UK has now revealed that the bristles of this 125-million-year-old dinosaur were in fact ginger-coloured feathers. The researchers say that the diminutive carnivore had a “Mohican” of feathers running along its head and back. It also had [...]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Archaeologists in China have discovered fossils of a pigeon-sized feathered dinosaur which they believe to be an ancestor of birds. Its remains were found 90 percent complete, preserved in a slab of rock in Inner Mongolia’s Ningcheng county in northern China, the researchers wrote in an article in Nature. Its four [...]