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 ...

Million-Year-Old Dinosaur-Era Bird Discovered, Experts Say 'Fossil Is Truly So One-Of-A-Kind' Scientists have been able to ...

Researchers from Yale and Brown University have used cutting-edge technology to reimagine how dinosaurs moved. By combining x-ray videos of modern bird joints with 3D software, the team has developed ...

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

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

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

Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale paleontologists ...

It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird group that survived the asteroid strike that wiped out all the non-avian dinosaurs. Not long after its discovery in the 1860s, the species was ...

Now, a newly discovered fossil provides the most complete glimpse to date of the brains of the ancestral birds that once flew ...

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 ...