Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, ...

A 168 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco is reshaping our understanding of cerapodan evolution.

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Morocco, has unearthed the oldest ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.