The story of the disappearance of dinosaurs is a famous one. Less familiar is the tale of the dinosaurs that were left behind. What is it about birds that allowed them to survive when all other ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs, which look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just funny ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...

If any bird looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park, it’s the toucan. Birds are living dinosaurs, after all, and this species still looks like its prehistoric ancestors. Toucan chicks are especially ...

Millions of years before modern birds evolved, their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that ...

Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life found a way and that some dinosaurs survived the mass extinction. That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

Did you know that birds are evolved from dinosaurs. All birds lay eggs and they can look very different. They all have beaks, feathers, two legs and two wings. Most even have special feathers on ...

Paleontologists continue to discuss the possibility of their even earlier presence in the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs ... into feathers on the bird's feet. "Since the Shh pathway ...

His research shows that as birds evolved, their adult skulls kept features that extinct dinosaurs had only as juveniles, paving the way for the avian beak. Photographed at the Peabody Museum of ...

Families visiting Birdworld are set to have a T-rexcellent time this Easter as dinosaurs descend on the popular attraction.