"Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it's just so weird— it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak," says Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil ...

A newly-discovered fossil named after Sir David Attenborough has pushed back the history of toothless birds by 50 million years. All birds today are toothless but that wasn't always the case and ...

"And those few places with any substantial fossil record of Late Cretaceous birds, like Madagascar and Argentina, reveal an aviary of bizarre, now-extinct species with teeth and long bony tails ...

The oldest-known bird, Archaeopteryx, dates to about 150 million years ago. With a mouthful of teeth and long bony tails, the earliest birds were a far cry from modern ones. Vegavis is one of only ...