Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

Recent research from the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri shed new light on how the evolution of skull flexibility in dinosaurs led to the diverse array of modern birds we see ...

Scientists have known for some time that birds like chickens and ostriches are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Now, a newly discovered fossil of a bird-like dinosaur could ...

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

(Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy ...

Woodpeckers have extraordinarily long tongues to locate and capture various hard-to-reach insects living inside the wood of trees.

As anybody who has seen “Jurassic Park” knows, the T-rex is a pretty fearsome dinosaur, but it was the blitzing, fleet-footed velociraptor that inspired the true fear in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 summer ...

The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

On May 25, 2024, a photograph went viral on X allegedly showing a giant bird's foot, resembling that of a dinosaur. "A Southern Cassowary claw. Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," ...

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