Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

Dinosaurs Once Had Furs and Feather Covering Their Body, Study Finds Evidence of Bird-Like Features We have learned about dinosaurs being ferociously built with scales on their skin. Little did we ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators ...

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 ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

It had feathered wings like living birds, but also had traits found ... Terrestrial ecosystems collapsed. Feathered dinosaurs that ate leaves or small animals might have starved.

and the similarities to small theropod dinosaurs like the velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame are striking. Yet birds differ from their reptile ancestors in many important ways. A turning point in ...