Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...

A fossil that was unearthed in South America has recently been identified, and it's a bird that could put fear into almost ...

The almost perfectly preserved skull of a prehistoric bird could be a sort of "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the evolution of avian intelligence - a process that has been a mystery until now.

Tūmai Cassidy from Ngāi Tahu, the principal Māori tribe of the South Island, says that “They’re almost prehistoric looking. Seen from the front, their bodies can seem almost perfectly round. With ...

While some of these findings mirror previous research on extinct birds, they are the first to correlate bird traits with the timing of extinctions, said lead author Kyle Kittelberger, a graduate ...