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 and can solve a physical task to gain ...

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

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

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

Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

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

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 ...

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