Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

A new fossil may revolutionize our understanding of bird brain evolution, shedding light on how the intelligence of modern ...

What was 21-feet tall, looked like a T-rex and was covered in feathers? It was the Cryolophosaurus, of course! This eccentric ...

“We found that the very features that appeared in early dinosaurs to stiffen the leg ended up being co-opted in birds and their close relatives to mobilize the knee joint in a unique and extreme ...

"We found that the very features that appeared in early dinosaurs to stiffen the leg ended up being co-opted in birds and their close relatives to mobilize the knee joint in a unique and extreme ...

"We found that the very features that appeared in early dinosaurs to stiffen the leg ended up being co-opted in birds and their close relatives to mobilize the knee joint in a unique and extreme ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery ... event that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs, which occurred around 66 million years ago.

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

The prehistoric species, Navaornis hestiae, existed around 80 million years ago, predating the mass extinction event that eliminated all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago.

Many other well-known dinosaurs, like the Tyrannosaurus rex, had straightened tibial surfaces and stiffened drumsticks that only allowed for hinge-like knees. “We found that the very features that ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...