It had open pennaceous feathers — soft and fluffy — on much of its body, yet closed, flight-capable feathers on its wings and tail. It walked, it climbed, it likely glided or flapped through ...

"The extensive feathering of this specimen, particularly the attachment of long pennaceous feathers to the pes, sheds new light on the early evolution of feathers and demonstrates the complex ...

The fossil also shows evidence of pennaceous feathers—feathers with a central shaft and vanes—similar to those of modern birds, but with some primitive characteristics. Additionally, Xiaotingia ...

The fossil also shows evidence of pennaceous feathers—feathers with a central shaft and vanes—similar to those of modern birds, but with some primitive characteristics. Additionally, Xiaotingia ...

For those animals, pennaceous feathers were probably display pieces. But other pennaraptorans, such as the small, four-winged, forest-dwelling Microraptor, are trickier to interpret.

Co-author Jinseok Park of Seoul National University in South Korea and colleagues thought the pennaceous feathers might have been used to flush out potential prey from hiding places so they could ...

Some of these dinosaurs had feathers on their tails and small wing-like feathers on their forelimbs (arms). These small wing-like structures called ‘proto-wings’ are composed of special feathers known ...

Jerusalem Post Science Small dinosaurs flapped their feathers to scare prey and catch a meal Most dinos died out about 66 million years ago, but but we’re still learning new things about them on ...

The ancient form of these feathers first emerged in dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period, and these dinosaurs, called Pennaraptorans, had proto-wings made of pennaceous feathers. However, it has been ...

The authors built a robot named Robopteryx to test their hypothesis, basing it on the size, shape, and estimated movement range of the pennaraptoran dinosaur Caudipteryx — a two-legged, peacock-sized ...