Patrick O’Connor at Ohio University says the new find is an “amazing fossil,” illustrating “the mosaic of dinosaur and bird features in some very early representatives of the bird-like ...

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

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

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, ...

Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about ...

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

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Discover the remarkable 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo found in Missouri, offering fresh insights into dinosaur ...