Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

One of the key features of the dinosaurs is that they walked upright. Rather than having their legs out to the side, like in ...

Paleontologists say they have discovered dinosaur tracks in northeastern British Columbia that are about 95 million years old ...

A newly identified fossil bird, Navaornis hestiae, from the Mesozoic Era has provided crucial information about the ...

Paleontologists in Brazil unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil of a bird species named Navaornis hestiae, dating back 80 ...

Now, a newly discovered fossil provides the most complete glimpse to date of the brains of the ancestral birds that once flew above the dinosaurs. The species was named Navaornis hestiae ...

The fossil fills a 70-million-year gap in our understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds ...

"There was a significant gap (in the fossil record) between birds like Archaeopteryx that had a more dinosaur-like type of ...

A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...

While the roar of the mighty Tyrannosaurs rex in the Jurassic Park film franchise is pretty terrifying, it was actually ...