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

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...

NARRATOR: The remains of ancient archaic birds have beaks filled with teeth. Losing them was a key stage in the evolution of dinosaurs into modern birds. And the fact that this fossil has a beak ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

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

rex and modern birds – and ornithischians seem to have developed the ability to generate their own body heat. This adaptation allowed them to expand into colder regions ... that the missing chapters ...

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

Without this void in the once-intricate tree of life, evolution might have ushered relatives into the modern age that would ...

a discovery that rewrites the history of avian evolution. The newly identified bird, called Baminornis zhenghensis, joins the similarly aged Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany in 1861 ...