Learn how a unique combination of anatomical traits and CT-scan data led researchers to classify Chromeornis as a new ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

The yellow-headed Amazon parrot is now officially recognized as endangered and appears to be headed for extinction in the ...

Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...