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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Watch our animation. By the start of the Jurassic Period, 201 million years ago, dinosaurs had become the global superstars of the animal kingdom. There were lots of them – and lots of different ...

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

Such well-preserved fossil birds, especially from this ancient era ... extinct around 66 million years ago alongside all non-avian dinosaurs.

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

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

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