Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than 150 million ... “Fossils discovered in China show it had the simplest type of protofeathers. They give us an idea of what the ...

Did dinosaurs like these dromaeosaurs dine ... Lush forests were abuzz with all types of exotic birds, including many that might have passed for contemporary species at first glance.

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

the fibers are just sort of a jumble," which is the type of structure she tends to see in warm-blooded bones. Her observations have shown that dinosaurs' bone structures are more similar to birds ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Now Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today – an evolutionary mystery that ...