"One of the characteristics we have to identify is that the feather grows out of a follicle in the skin." "It's possible, however, that follicles and other modern characteristics might not have ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird-like features while still retaining lizard-like scales on other parts of their body. This theory is based on the discovery of a ...

Recently, scientists found that Psittacosaurus—dinosaurs with feathers—seemed to have scaly skin akin to reptiles. These dinosaurs date back to the early Cretaceous period, roughly 135 to 120 ...

“If feathered dinosaurs aren’t found among early dinosaurs, then it makes it more likely feathers were an innovation among later groups.” The skin of reptiles is made from the same main protein ...