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.

Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...