Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

In 2018, a South Korean team described the smallest known footprints attributed to a carnivorous dinosaur, likely a Microraptor, discovered near the southern town of Jinju in South Korea.

The bones comprising them were relatively long compared to those of related dinosaurs ... Like its non-flying close relatives, Microraptor had elongated bones lining the top and underside of ...

Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million years (more than 160 million years in some parts of the world). They evolved diverse shapes and sizes, from the fearsome ...

It was in 2001 that scientists in China discovered the fossil of a 2.5-foot-long flying dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago. Microraptor gui had four wings, with feathered hind limbs ...

With its four wings and a long, bony tail, Microraptor was unlike any bird alive today. This is because it was a dinosaur—one that evolved long after the first known bird, Archaeopteryx ...

For instance, paleontologists think a tiny chicken-size dinosaur named Microraptor had feathers on all four limbs to help it glide or even fly. Feathers may have been very colorful in some species.