Dinosaurs have long captured the human imagination, often depicted as fearsome, reptilian creatures that ruled the Earth for ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

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

Newly described fossils show carnivorous dinosaurs seen in South America also thrived in the Cretaceous of southeastern ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Large birds—our closest relations to dinosaurs—are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food. This is the first time scientists have been able to show that ...

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

A study on bird intelligence found that emus and rheas can solve puzzles to access food, proving they can innovate.

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

A new study suggests that emus and rheas - and by extension, potentially animals like velociraptors - are anything but ...

For years, emus and rheas have been dismissed as some of the least intelligent birds on the planet. But new research suggests ...