New research suggests male oviraptor dinosaurs would shake their tail feathers to woo potential female mates (reconstruction of such dino-wooing shown here). Sydney Mohr. Feathered dinosaurs might ...

DARWIN, Australia, Sept. 15 (UPI) --A nature photographer shared video of an Australian crocodile using its muscular tail to propel itself out of the water to grab some food hanging from a rope.

Animal tails come in all shapes and sizes and serve many purposes, from balance and communication to defense and mating displays. While some animals have fairly small tails, others carry massive, ...

Almost everyone has a pretty good idea of what Tyrannosaurus rex looked like. The massive head, scrawny arms, and the bird-like posture are all iconic parts of prehistory's most famous dinosaur, but ...

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches, Vol. 86, No. 6 (November/December 2013), pp. 611-630 (20 pages) AbstractThe ability to shed an appendage occurs in both ...

Feathered dinosaurs might have used muscular tails to shake tail feathers and lure the opposite sex, researchers say. "There are good reasons to think they had gone vegetarian," researcher Scott ...

Feathered dinosaurs might have used muscular tails to shake tail feathers and lure the opposite sex, researchers say. Scientists analyzed 75-million-year-old fossils of feathered, two-legged dinosaurs ...