For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

"The primitive cranial features speak to the fact that most Cretaceous birds such as Cratonavis could not move their upper bill independently with respect to the braincase and lower jaw ...

After Archaeopteryx, the fossil record suggests that birds diversified rapidly, though some of these Cretaceous early birds would have looked quite strange to our eyes, with their toothed beaks ...

Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic period in a recent article published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, marking a "historic" discovery. Unearthed in the Zhenghe region ...

This is an illustration showing how the flight landing track was probably made as a bird set down on the moist sand of a river bank. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

pterosaurs and hairy-feathered birds filled the skies. But as the continents spread, the ocean currents churned with ever more vigor. After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate ...

“We showed that metabolism is not the reason why birds were the only group of dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period,” Wiemann says in a separate press ...

"Until now, the oldest record of short-tailed birds dated from the Early Cretaceous. Baminornis zhenghensis is the only short-tailed Jurassic bird and the oldest discovered so far, which pushes ...