It’s now widely accepted that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but imagine telling that to a 19th-century fossil collector.

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The article explores the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and modern birds, highlighting various bird-like creatures from ...

Prehistoric Body Theater brings ancient creatures to life through dance in the U.S. premiere of "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone ...

An international study reveals surprising bird nesting activity in the Arctic during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils from Alaska show birds were b ...

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 ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward the wings. A 150 million-year-old fossil reveals early bird ...

This finding rewrites the evolutionary history of birds. "Previously, the oldest record of short-tailed birds is from the Early Cretaceous,” Wang said in a press release. “Baminornis zhenghensis is ...

These characteristics highlight the role of mosaic evolution in early bird development. Notably, Baminornis zhenghensis has a short tail ending in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula ...

According to the authors of the new paper, the other birds that were around 69 million years ago were strange and not so similar to the birds of today. “Places with any substantial fossil record of ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for birds, including early waterfowl, to weather the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event about 66 million years ago.