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

It is an ornithischian that lived on Earth 193 million years ago. "Along with other non-avian dinosaurs, they faced extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, while their early evolutionary history ...

But, according to well-preserved throat fossils discovered in 2005, many non-avian dinosaurs might have relied on chirps instead of ferocious roars to get their voice out there. The fossils ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

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

This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. Many scientists believe that this mass extinction paved the ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

Credit: Alec Wilken, Casey Holiday When the team analyzed data from the 3D models, they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into different ...