Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from ...

The Philadelphia region is entering a new era of dinosaur discovery, reaffirming South Jersey as one of the world’s most ...

Zhou Changfu, a paleontologist at the Shandong University of Science and Technology, added that after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, mammals were free to diversify into the wide array of ...

While a transient over-expression of the gene can permanently turn feet scales into feathers, it is much harder to disrupt ...

Inhibiting the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway strongly perturbs feather development in chickens by restricting feather bud ...

Inhibiting the sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway strongly perturbs feather development in chickens by restricting feather bud outgrowth, invagination and ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...