"Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the sole ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

It has a long pointed beak and a brain shape unlike any other Mesozoic birds, which were markedly different ... Chief among ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry, ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era.

They found that this tree had two main branches—one containing ... coincided with increasing pressure from predators during the Mesozoic Era. At this point snail-eating predators were becoming ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era when ... perched in the bird tree of life?” ...