When this researcher first laid eyes on a fossil, she instantly realized it was a new dinosaur species that had likely died a ...

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

Baby Cockatiel Begs for Food in a Bib Like the Cutest Tiny Dinosaur originally appeared on Parade Pets. Baby Cockatiel birds are already ridiculously cute, but put a little paper towel bib on one ...

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 ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

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

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains.

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ...