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Dinosaurs survived the freezing winters that wiped out big reptiles about 200 million years ago thanks to feathers, and they went on to thrive afterwards, according to a study based on a recent desert excavation in Xinjiang in western China. Non-avian dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus, were protected against cold volcanic winters during the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods, by...

The new study makes the case that dinosaurs started out in cold regions, and rose to prominence after a mass extinction event cooled the globe.

A new study of ancient mass extinction suggests that ancient high latitudes, to which early dinosaurs were largely relegated, regularly froze over, and that the

There's still much about dinosaurs we get wrong. A new study suggests dinosaurs could withstand the freezing cold thanks to primitive feathers covering their bodies, drastically altering the popular imagery we have of them.

A feathery coat and adaptation to extreme cold helped dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus, survive the end-Triassic mass extinction that wiped out reptiles: paper.