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 ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place 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, ...

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

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

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 ...