The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...
A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.
Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...
Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...
Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...
Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...
Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million ...
The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...