Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place on the ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

A harbor seal named Blue at Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford died earlier this month of the bird flu. With Trump's proposed ...

For more than 40 years, an area of Cretaceous rock exposures southwest of Choteau off the Bellview Road has been the site of exciting fossil discoveries, including ones by paleontologists ...

A barred owl rescued by two Charlestown police officers last month has recovered well and will be returned to the wild soon.

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...

First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...