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 arms, like birds, and, ...

It's not uncommon for scientists to uncover new fossils from the ages of dinosaurs, but every now and then, a discovery reveals much rarer information. Scientists unearthed the fossil of the small and ...

Paleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach. It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating ...

Paleontologists in the UK have proved that a small feathered flying dinosaur, about the same size as a housecat, ate mammals. A fossil of the dinosaur, known as Microraptor, was found with the foot of ...

Ever since the announcement of an exquisitely-preserved specimen of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor gui in 2003, paleontologists have been debating how it might have flown and what relevance it ...

A feathered flying dinosaur the size of a cat is the first that has been proven to eat mammals by scientists. Palaeontologists in the UK have analysed fossil remains from around 120 million years ago, ...

Dinosaur fossils are found throughout the world, but an "exceptionally rare" discovery sheds light on what type of animals a dinosaur fed on – mammals. In the early 2000s, the fossil of a Microraptor ...

Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ...

A specimen of the dinosaur Microraptor, preserved in volcanic ash, has served up some new dietary clues. A particularly well preserved specimen of the dinosaur Microraptor found in China has given ...

Scientists have documented one of the rarest evidence of a dinosaur having eaten a mammal from a fossil specimen unearthed in the ancient forests of what is now China. The study, published on ...

It might sound like a killer drone, but the Microraptor was in fact an airborne terror that could harass fish as much as it did birds and mammals in the Cretaceous ...