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

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

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

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Christopher Calvito, founder of Passepartout Duo and KOMA Elektronik as well as Chromaplane’s co-creator with Nicoletta ...

And unlike ground-dwelling dinosaurs, birds could fly to new areas to find food and shelter, giving them a huge survival advantage when ecosystems collapsed. With all the larger non-avian ...

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 ...

Modern birds, as well as other animals like snakes and fishes, have skulls with jaws and palates that aren't rigid and fixed in place like those in mammals, turtles, or non-avian dinosaurs.