“A short tail is widely regarded as aerodynamically beneficial, and the reduction of the tail constitutes the most dramatic change during the dinosaurs-bird transition,” says Min Wang at the ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds ...

You may not think of dinosaurs when you think of love and romance, but on Valentine's Day, the Museum of the Rockies is ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of ...

Fujianvenator prodigiosus, a bird-like dinosaur discovered near Nanping in China, artists impression. Screenshot from Fujianvenator Prodigiosus: The Bird-like Dinosaur Discovery, Source: YouTube, ...

Birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs, but how and when they evolved into the species we see today has been a subject of great scientific debate. The recent discovery of a 68-million-year ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago ...

Skull of ancient bird Vegavis is 69 million years old Key traits define Vegavis as anatomically modern bird Antarctica had a temperate climate during Cretaceous Period Feb 5 (Reuters) - Near the ...

Mushtaq Taleb, a bird lover from Iraq, has transformed his hobby into a business in the southern city of Basra by creating a ...

Birds are the only dinosaurs still alive today, but how did they survive the asteroid? Most birds were wiped out, along with the rest of the dinosaurs and 75 percent of all life on Earth ...

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil ...