Feathered Non-Avian Dinosaurs from North America Provide Insight into Wing Origins

A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

(2012) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

From extant to extinct: locomotor ontogeny and the evolution of avian flight

(2012) Ashley M. Heers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird

(2011) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   Biology Letters

An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae

(2011) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

FEATHERS OF THE INGERSOLL SHALE, EUTAW FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS), EASTERN ALABAMA: THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF FEATHERS FROM NORTH AMERICAN MESOZOIC ROCKS

(2011) T. K. KNIGHT et al.   PALAIOS

The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds

(2011) Denver W. Fowler et al.   PLoS One

A Diverse Assemblage of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Bird Feathers from Canadian Amber

(2011) R. C. McKellar et al.   SCIENCE

Mud-Trapped Herd Captures Evidence of Distinctive Dinosaur Sociality

(2010) David J. Varricchio et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain

(2010) Francisco Ortega et al.   NATURE

Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers

(2010) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

Anatomy of Juravenator starki (Theropoda: Coelurosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Germany

(2010) Luis M. Chiappe et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution

(2010) L. E. Zanno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The asymmetry of the carpal joint and the evolution of wing folding in maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs

(2010) C. Sullivan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

(2009) Xiao-Ting Zheng et al.   NATURE

A pre-Archaeopteryx troodontid theropod from China with long feathers on the metatarsus

(2009) Dongyu Hu et al.   NATURE

A feather from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico

(2008) T.E. Williamson et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Sexual maturity in growing dinosaurs does not fit reptilian growth models

(2008) A. H. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The early evolution of feathers: fossil evidence from Cretaceous amber of France

(2008) V. Perrichot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES