The four-winged Microraptor has always been acted as a star witness in this debate, and O’Connor’s specimen confirms that it was indeed at home in the trees. All of the Jehol enanthiomithines ...

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 was an exquisitely feathered dinosaur. The small, sickle-clawed predator, which lived about 120 million years ago, was covered in well-developed plumage, including long feathers on its ...

Wikimedia Commons. Essentially modern-looking birds had already evolved by the time Microraptor showed up 120 million years ago, and avian bones have even been found inside one specimen’s gut ...

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 ...

Microraptor was about the size of a crow and one of the smallest dinosaurs. The first specimen was discovered in deposits in Liaoning, China, in the early 2000s.

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, ...

“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.

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 ...

An artist's interpretation of what the Microraptor may have looked like while eating a rodent. (Image credit: Ralph Attanasia) Around 120 million years ago, a crow-size raptor gobbled up a mammal ...

This 100-Million-Year-Old Microraptor Flapped Its Arms While Running Learn how a species with shockingly long strides might have used its arms for a unique form of flight-like movement. By Margherita ...