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, ...

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 ...

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

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Upon entering Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, my eyes were drawn to the scattering of gray feathers across the ...

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...