Microraptor, a small dinosaur that lived in northeast China about 120 million years ago, had feathers on its wings, hind legs and tail. But in all likelihood, it didn’t fly like a bird. Instead ...

Microraptor must have tucked its legs vertically beneath its body, like modern birds of prey do when they pounce. Its leg flight feathers would only produce lift if the leading edge faced forward, ...

The fossil find further suggests that Microraptor, which lived 120 million years ago, may have shed only a few feathers at a time — just like modern songbirds, researchers report July 16 in ...

The team turned to Microraptor when they came across a new specimen of the tiny dinosaur, with a thorough coat of well-preserved feathers. “It’s one of the most beautiful Microraptor specimens ...

Wind Tunnel Test. In 2000, farmers in northeastern China found a fossil unlike any described before. Microraptor, a dinosaur about the size of a goose, had four fully formed wings—two on its ...

One of the latter was microraptor, a feathered dinosaur that doesn't appear to have been of the avian lineage but still seems to have had wing-like feathers on all four of its limbs. Researchers ...

Specimens of the dinosaur, Microraptor zhaoinus, have been discovered containing ancient birds, fish, and lizards, so the mammalian find is just the latest known source of protein for this spunky ...

About 120 million years ago, the Microraptor zhaoianus ate an animal about the size of a mouse, proving dinosaurs did eat mammals. Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, ...

Scientists unearthed the fossil of the small and feathered microraptor zhaoianus back in 2000, but only recently did one researcher catch a "very rare discovery" — another animal inside of its ...

But while finding another Microraptor specimen is certainly exciting, the contents of its stomach are perhaps more so. The unlucky lizard actually turns out to be a new species, unlike any other ...