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.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

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

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

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

Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about birds. That may come as no surprise, given that birds are dinosaurs. But in ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

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 ...