Screenshot from X If you think sharks and crocodiles are the only terrifying animals that seem like living dinosaurs, then ...

New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird flight.

Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.

Imagine peering into your backyard and spotting a creature whose ancestors once thundered across ancient landscapes alongside ...

Backed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, scientists at Colossal Biosciences are using cutting-edge genetic technology to attempt ...

Birds are today’s only living dinosaurs, but how did they survive the asteroid? Birds are the only dinosaurs still alive today, but how did they survive the asteroid? Most birds were wiped out ...

Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.

We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground-shaking roars, but the latest research shows that this is probably mistaken and they probably sounded very different.

Animals Wildlife Birds All living birds share an ‘iridescent’ ancestor The specialized group of dinosaurs evolved their shimmery and colorful plumage hundreds of times. Laura Baisas ...