It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos. Fossils from two newly described birds point to some strong feet. By Laura Baisas. Published Oct 9, 2024 2:00 PM EDT.

An asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Researchers in Japan uncover fossil of bird from Early Cretaceous. Nov 18, 2019. Scientists unearth 'most bird-like' dinosaur ever found. May 14, 2019.

"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 ...

Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the creatures reproducing in a polar region ...

No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn't always the case -- many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have ...

This leaves a gap of about 30 million years before the oldest known record of Cretaceous birds. Jurassic era avialans are a critical key to deciphering the evolutionary origin of the avialan ...

Newly discovered ancient birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Early birds then diversified throughout the remainder of the Jurassic and into the Cretaceous period (around 145-66 million years ago), becoming capable flyers in the process.

Palaeontologists unearthed the bird tracks in Wonthaggi Formation in Victoria, Australia, that date back to around 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous (145 million to 100.5 million ...