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 ...

Paleontologists typically unearth fossilized skeletal remains of ancient creatures, however, this time they found something unexpected — fossilized vomit. This 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

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

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the first ...

In a groundbreaking analysis of 413 early Jurassic theropod footprints unearthed in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, ...

BEIJING -- A landmark study of 413 early Jurassic theropod footprints discovered in Southwest China's Sichuan province has provided unprecedented insights into the behavior and movement of these ...

Birds, unlike their dinosaur ancestors, lack teeth, relying on beaks and gizzards for eating. Some birds have evolved ...

Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.

Illustration: Matheus Fernandes Reconstruction of a late Triassic landscape approximately 215 million years ago: a lagerpetid ...

Dr. Mario Bronzati University of Tübingen Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Geoscience [email protected] PD Dr. Ingmar Werneburg University of Tübingen Department of Geoscience ...