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 ...

The vast numbers of new dinosaurs that have been documented since the 1960s are equally exciting. New dinosaurs have of ...

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

To do so, they went back through the fossil record, looking at a variety of different animals who were on the path to birds. In Marasuchus, a close relative of dinosaurs, the researchers found that ...

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 ...

China is a Jurassic treasure trove going big with fossil discoveries. But will dinosaurs have the same pulling power as ...

The Sasayama Group has produced many dinosaur fossils. Researchers announced in July that fossils found there in 2010 are of a new genus and species of a troodontidae, a bird-like bipedal dinosaur.

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 ...

The 150-million-year-old fossil is set to be exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York from December 8 ...

The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever discovered will be on view in New York starting this weekend, American Museum of ...