Fragments of dinosaur-era bird wings have been found preserved in amber before but this is the first time part of a mummified dinosaur skeleton has been discovered, McKellar said. The tail section ...

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Palaeontologists have found the feathered tail of a 99 million-year-old dinosaur encased in a piece of amber at a jewellery market in Myanmar. The discovery, outlined today in the journal Current ...

Battered feathers and prehistoric beetle larvae encased in amber have revealed a relationship between dinosaurs and insects that stretches back more than 105 million years – the oldest example of ...

A rare fossilized amber has provided a glimpse into a 112-million-year-old Cretaceous ecosystem in South America during the age of dinosaurs. The University of Barcelona studied an amber deposit ...

Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world's great natural history museums. But it's the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology ...

Researchers have discovered a feathery dinosaur tail with bones, flesh and skin inside a chunk of amber found in Myanmar last year. Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail ...