EDMONTON – A University of Alberta scientist has found that some dinosaurs could really shake a tail feather. Scott Persons says that far from being the lumbering, cold-blooded beasts of ...

When train-rattling, the birds used the shorter, grey tail feathers to strum the longer feathers like a guitar. On average, they did it at a rate of 25 times a second.

At least one species of dinosaur had a feathered tail "built for flaunting," says University of Alberta scientist Scott Persons, who argues that it is time to update the portrayal of dinosaurs as ...

SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER This feathered dinosaur tail is preserved in a 99-million-year-old lump of amber. Similarly stuck are several ants, a beetle and bits of foliage.

A tiny two-legged dinosaur had orange and white rings around its tail, researchers say, the first time the colour of a dinosaur's feathers has been discovered.

Though flight ready, the beast's tail feathers may or may not have been used for flying, said the researchers who found the exceptional specimen, a roughly 3.6-foot-long (1.1 meters) dinosaur, in ...

"You stick a feather fan on the end of a highly dextrous and muscular tail and you've got what I think is a tail built for flaunting, that could shake a tail feather side to side, raise it up ...