(WHTM) — For decades it was the accepted wisdom-all dinosaurs walked around buck nekkid. Artists’ conceptions, movies, illustrations in scientific articles, in fact just about everywhere you looked, ...

Discover how the Velociraptor feathered coat reshapes our view of this dinosaur's lifestyle and evolutionary lineage. Since Jurassic Park aired, dinosaurs like Velociraptor have received something of ...

Tens of millions of people have flocked to theaters this summer to see Jurassic World, an action flick “starring” a team of trained Velociraptors that hunt genetically modified dinosaurs on command of ...

If the original “Jurassic Park” film was made today, its velociraptors may have had feathers. A study from the the University of Edinburgh reveals that fossils of a new dinosaur dubbed Zhenyuanlong ...

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The vicious little dinosaur velociraptor was a feathered fiend, according to scientists who found evidence of quills on this well-known meat-eater's forearm. Palaeontologists say a forearm bone of ...

Tiny knobs identified on the forelimb fossils of the Velociraptor suggest that the dinosaur species had feathers, according to researchers. The scientists spotted the telltale bumps, to which feather ...

We shouldn’t feel bound by what audiences are comfortable with. I’ve never seen a major feature create a truly well-done, scary feathered dinosaur, mostly because they have been afraid to commit to ...

Finding of quill knobs on fossilized velociraptor bone demonstrates that even large dinosaurs were feathered and may have descended from animals capable of flight. Scientists have known for years that ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The vicious little dinosaur Velociraptor was a feathered fiend, according to scientists who found evidence of quills on this well-known ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The team recognised these as quill knobs, small lumps of bone that act as attachment points for feathers.

image: (A) View of right ulna of Velociraptor IGM 100/981. (B) Detail from cast of red box in (A), with arrows showing six evenly spaced feather quill knobs. (C) View of right ulna of a turkey vulture ...