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

birds evolved from their giant ancestors- the feathered dinosaurs. In a recent fossil study, palaeontologists termed Yutyrannus hauli as the largest feathered dinosaur. The fossil is around nine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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