For years, emus and rheas have been dismissed as some of the least intelligent birds on the planet. But new research suggests ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

A new study suggests that emus and rheas - and by extension, potentially animals like velociraptors - are anything but ...

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, ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

A study on bird intelligence found that emus and rheas can solve puzzles to access food, proving they can innovate.

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...