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.

Understanding that birds are living dinosaurs changes how we see the natural world. It reminds us that evolution is ongoing, and that the story of life is never finished.

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 that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, reminders of a distant and strange past. Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct ...

The likes of Hesperornis, the enantiornithines and other grinning birds disappeared forever, beaked birds being the only surviving dinosaurs.

Real Gigantic, Dinosaur-Like Bird Claw? "Just in case you didn't think that birds are dinosaurs," one X user captioned the photograph.

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.

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 ...